Manicotti in Elizabeth

4 restaurants in Elizabeth list manicotti on their menus. The cheapest is Elizabeth Pizzeria at $10.00. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Mario's Famous Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits 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 Elizabeth is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 122 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 Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest manicotti in Elizabeth? Elizabeth Pizzeria, at $10.00 on 871 Elizabeth Ave. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should manicotti cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Elizabeth that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. 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.