Fried Ravioli in Durham

4 restaurants in Durham list fried ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Roma Pizza Shop at $6.99. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Pulcinella's Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $3.00 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 fried ravioli in 53 other areas and compare them all on fried ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $10.75 at the median, so Durham is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 46 of the 53. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.95 at Primo Pizza in Wayne, NJ, and the highest best price is $11.95 in San Antonio, TX. The nearest area with it is Chapel Hill, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $8.95.

Where is the cheapest fried ravioli in Durham? Roma Pizza Shop, at $6.99 on 121 Sherron Rd. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.00.

What should fried ravioli cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Durham 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 Chapel Hill, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $8.95. That is $1.96 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.