Manicotti in El Cajon

4 restaurants in El Cajon list manicotti on their menus. The cheapest is King's Market Pizza at $10.95. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $24.00 at Testo Pepesto Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $13.05 apart, which is 119% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 manicotti in 155 other areas and compare them all on manicotti across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so El Cajon is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 107 of the 155. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $19.00 in Woodbury, CT. The nearest area with it is San Diego, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $13.95.

Where is the cheapest manicotti in El Cajon? King's Market Pizza, at $10.95 on 7907 Cajon Rd. The same dish reaches $24.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.05.

What should manicotti cost here? About $14.99 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 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 San Diego, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $13.95. That is $3.00 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.