Stromboli in Elizabeth

8 restaurants in Elizabeth list stromboli on their menus. The cheapest is Tommy's Pizzeria & Restaurant at $8.00. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $16.15 at Mario's Famous Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.15 apart, which is 102% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track stromboli in 456 other areas and compare them all on stromboli across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Elizabeth is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 345 of the 456. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Da Vinci Pizzeria in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $18.29 in Cape May, NJ. The nearest area with it is Roselle Park, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.95.

Where is the cheapest stromboli in Elizabeth? Tommy's Pizzeria & Restaurant, at $8.00 on 1063 Fairmount Ave. The same dish reaches $16.15 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.15.

What should stromboli cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Elizabeth that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Roselle Park, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.95. That is $3.95 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.