Beef Ravioli in El Cajon

3 restaurants in El Cajon list beef ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Rancho Giant Pizza at $9.99. The typical price across town is $12.99, 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 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 beef ravioli in 1 other area and compare them all on beef ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $19.50 at the median, so El Cajon is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.95 at Deja Vu Pizza & Pasta in San Francisco, CA. The nearest area with it is San Francisco, about 462 mi away, where the best price is $11.95.

Where is the cheapest beef 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 beef ravioli cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 3 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 San Francisco, about 462 mi away, where the best price is $11.95. That is $1.96 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.