Mozzarella Sticks in Elizabeth

14 restaurants in Elizabeth list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Elizabeth Pizzeria at $5.00. The typical price across town is $8.50, and the dearest we found is $10.95 at Mario's Famous Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.95 apart, which is 119% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.95 at the median, so Elizabeth is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 564 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Roselle, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.95.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Elizabeth? Elizabeth Pizzeria, at $5.00 on 871 Elizabeth Ave. The same dish reaches $10.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.95.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $8.50 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Elizabeth that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Roselle, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.95. That is $1.95 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.