Cheese Ravioli in El Cajon

5 restaurants in El Cajon list cheese ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Rancho Giant Pizza at $9.99. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $13.99 at Bambino's Pizza & Deli #4, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 40% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track cheese ravioli in 193 other areas and compare them all on cheese ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so El Cajon is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 185 of the 193. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.50 at Picatta Pizza & Pasta in Houston, TX, and the highest best price is $20.00 in Ventnor City, NJ. The nearest area with it is La Mesa, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $13.64.

Where is the cheapest cheese ravioli in El Cajon? Rancho Giant Pizza, at $9.99 on 2441 Jamacha Rd. The same dish reaches $13.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should cheese ravioli cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in El Cajon that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 La Mesa, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $13.64. That is $3.65 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.