Mozzarella Sticks in Corona

4 restaurants in Corona list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Lefrak Pizza at $6.25. The typical price across town is $8.24, and the dearest we found is $8.95 at Taste of Italy Restaurant & Pizzeria NYC, so the two ends of the list are $2.70 apart, which is 43% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.95 at the median, so Corona is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 612 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Jackson Heights, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $9.15.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Corona? Lefrak Pizza, at $6.25 on 9717 57Th Ave. The same dish reaches $8.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.70.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $8.24 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Corona that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Jackson Heights, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $9.15. That is $2.90 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.