Marsala in Edison

9 restaurants in Edison list marsala on their menus. The cheapest is Fratelli's Pizza at $16.99, listed as Chicken Marsala. The typical price across town is $21.95, and the dearest we found is $28.95 at Cafe Gallo Pizzeria & Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $11.96 apart, which is 70% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track marsala in 402 other areas and compare them all on marsala across United States. The typical price there runs $21.95 at the median, so Edison is about average, with a lower typical price than 197 of the 402. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Italian Corner Deli by Massimo in Trumbull, CT, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Metuchen, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $17.50.

Where is the cheapest marsala in Edison? Fratelli's Pizza, at $16.99 on 999 Amboy Ave. The same dish reaches $28.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.96.

What should marsala cost here? About $21.95 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Edison that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Metuchen, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $17.50. That is $0.51 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.