Parmigiana in Edison

10 restaurants in Edison list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Franco's Pizza at $13.95, listed as Eggplant Parmigiana. The typical price across town is $20.00, and the dearest we found is $24.99 at Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $11.04 apart, which is 79% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Edison is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 178 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Metuchen, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Edison? Franco's Pizza, at $13.95 on 170 Talmadge Rd. The same dish reaches $24.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.04.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $20.00 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Edison that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 $15.00. That is $1.05 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.