Meatball Hero in East Islip

3 restaurants in East Islip list meatball hero on their menus. The cheapest is D'Fortini at $10.75. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $13.49 at Francesco's Trattoria, so the two ends of the list are $2.74 apart, which is 25% 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 meatball hero in 11 other areas and compare them all on meatball hero across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so East Islip is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 9 of the 11. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.40 at Vincenzo's of East Meadow in East Meadow, NY, and the highest best price is $11.50 in Lindenhurst, NY. The nearest area with it is Lindenhurst, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $11.50.

Where is the cheapest meatball hero in East Islip? D'Fortini, at $10.75 on 314 E Main St. The same dish reaches $13.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.74.

What should meatball hero cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in East Islip 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 Lindenhurst, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $11.50. That is $0.75 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.