Mozzarella Sticks in Edison

10 restaurants in Edison list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Tony's Italian Restaurant & Pizza at $8.50. The typical price across town is $10.75, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Francesco's Pizzeria & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $6.50 apart, which is 76% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.90 at the median, so Edison is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 172 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Fords, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Edison? Tony's Italian Restaurant & Pizza, at $8.50 on 1199 Amboy Ave. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.50.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $10.75 is the typical price across the 10 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 Fords, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is the same as 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.