Shrimp Marinara in Cranford

3 restaurants in Cranford list shrimp marinara on their menus. The cheapest is Vinny's Pizza & Pasta at $15.95. The typical price across town is $21.80, and the dearest we found is $26.95 at Ciao Bello, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 69% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 shrimp marinara in 58 other areas and compare them all on shrimp marinara across United States. The typical price there runs $23.00 at the median, so Cranford is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 43 of the 58. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.99 at Little Italy Annapolis in Annapolis, MD, and the highest best price is $26.95 in Farmingdale, NY. The nearest area with it is Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $19.45.

Where is the cheapest shrimp marinara in Cranford? Vinny's Pizza & Pasta, at $15.95 on 28 Eastman St. The same dish reaches $26.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should shrimp marinara cost here? About $21.80 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Cranford that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $19.45. That is $3.50 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.