Pizza in Edison

14 restaurants in Edison list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is MASALO Pizzeria at $6.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $19.95 at Cafe Gallo Pizzeria & Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $12.96 apart, which is 185% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1060 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Edison is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 718 of the 1060. 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 Metuchen, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Edison? MASALO Pizzeria, at $6.99 on 2090 Oak Tree Rd. The same dish reaches $19.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.96.

What should pizza cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Edison that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 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 $13.00. That is $6.01 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.