Pizza in Columbus

33 restaurants in Columbus list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Castello Pizza 2 at $5.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Artisan Pizza Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $14.01 apart, which is 234% more for the same dish. Of the 33 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 13 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Columbus is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 837 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Westerville, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Columbus? Castello Pizza 2, at $5.99 on 2070 Leonard Ave. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.01.

What should pizza cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 33 kitchens in Columbus that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 13 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 Westerville, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $2.51 more than the best price here.

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.