Pizza in East Lansing

5 restaurants in East Lansing list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Peppinos Pizza East Lansing at $9.49, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $11.00, and the dearest we found is $18.59 at Georgio's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.10 apart, which is 96% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so East Lansing is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 949 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Lansing, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in East Lansing? Peppinos Pizza East Lansing, at $9.49 on 1391 E Grand River Ave. The same dish reaches $18.59 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.10.

What should pizza cost here? About $11.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in East Lansing that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Lansing, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $0.50 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.