Baked Ziti in Copiague

4 restaurants in Copiague list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Express at $10.00. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $17.95 at Alessia’s Pizza & Pasta (formerly Caffe Catania), so the two ends of the list are $7.95 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 460 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Copiague is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 210 of the 460. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Lindenhurst, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $14.50.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Copiague? Pizza Express, at $10.00 on 1195 Sunrise Hwy. The same dish reaches $17.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.95.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Copiague that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Lindenhurst, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $14.50. That is $4.50 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.