Pizza in Edmonton

5 restaurants in Edmonton list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Jay Bee's Diner at $10.45, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $24.75, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Mimi’s Pub & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $14.55 apart, which is 139% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 10 other areas and compare them all on pizza across Canada. The typical price there runs $22.99 at the median, so Edmonton is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 10. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.00 at Hometown Sports Grill in Ottawa, ON, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Vancouver, BC. The nearest area with it is Calgary, about 278 km away, where the best price is $18.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Edmonton? Jay Bee's Diner, at $10.45 on 12707 140 Ave NW. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.55.

What should pizza cost here? About $24.75 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Edmonton that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Calgary, about 278 km away, where the best price is $18.00. That is $7.55 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.