Chicken Parmigiana Pasta in El Cajon

4 restaurants in El Cajon list chicken parmigiana pasta on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Deli & Time at $12.99, listed as Chicken Parmesan Pasta. The typical price across town is $14.70, and the dearest we found is $14.99 at Shinar Pizza Market, so the two ends of the list are $2.00 apart, which is 15% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken parmigiana pasta in 37 other areas and compare them all on chicken parmigiana pasta 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 31 of the 37. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Puritan Pizza in Dorchester, MA, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Scranton, PA. The nearest area with it is Santee, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken parmigiana pasta in El Cajon? Pizza Deli & Time, at $12.99 on 1088 Estes St. The same dish reaches $14.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.00.

What should chicken parmigiana pasta cost here? About $14.70 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in El Cajon 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 Santee, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. 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.