Calamari in Edison

10 restaurants in Edison list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Benihana - Edison at $9.00, listed as Crispy Calamari. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Francesco's Pizzeria & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 122% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 495 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.42 at the median, so Edison is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 255 of the 495. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Metuchen, about 0 mi away, where the best price is $13.95.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Edison? Benihana - Edison, at $9.00 on 60 Parsonage Rd. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should calamari cost here? About $15.00 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 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 Metuchen, about 0 mi away, where the best price is $13.95. That is $4.95 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.