Garlic Bread With Cheese in Columbia

4 restaurants in Columbia list garlic bread with cheese on their menus. The cheapest is Gateway Pizza at $4.99. The typical price across town is $6.99, and the dearest we found is $7.99 at Royal Pizza Subs & Wings, so the two ends of the list are $3.00 apart, which is 60% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic bread with cheese in 160 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread with cheese across United States. The typical price there runs $6.99 at the median, so Columbia is about average, with a lower typical price than 60 of the 160. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Alsafa Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Coral Springs, FL. The nearest area with it is Elkridge, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $4.49.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread with cheese in Columbia? Gateway Pizza, at $4.99 on 10840 Little Patuxent Pkwy. The same dish reaches $7.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.00.

What should garlic bread with cheese cost here? About $6.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Columbia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Elkridge, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $4.49. That is $0.50 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.