Ham And Cheese Sandwich in El Cajon

4 restaurants in El Cajon list ham and cheese sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Rancho Giant Pizza at $8.99, listed as Ham & Cheese Sandwich. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $13.99 at Franco's Giant Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 56% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track ham and cheese sandwich in 18 other areas and compare them all on ham and cheese sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $10.50 at the median, so El Cajon is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 18. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.99 at Nephews Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $9.85 in La Mesa, CA. The nearest area with it is La Mesa, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.85.

Where is the cheapest ham and cheese sandwich in El Cajon? Rancho Giant Pizza, at $8.99 on 2441 Jamacha Rd. The same dish reaches $13.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should ham and cheese sandwich cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in El Cajon that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 La Mesa, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.85. That is $0.86 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.