Baked Ziti in Elizabeth

9 restaurants in Elizabeth list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Tommy's Pizzeria & Restaurant at $10.00. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $17.05 at Mario's Famous Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.05 apart, which is 70% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Elizabeth is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 431 of the 459. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.75.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Elizabeth? Tommy's Pizzeria & Restaurant, at $10.00 on 1063 Fairmount Ave. The same dish reaches $17.05 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.05.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Elizabeth that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.75. That is $1.75 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.