Calzone in Elkridge

5 restaurants in Elkridge list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Gateway Pizza, Subs & Indian Cuisine at $10.99, listed as Cheese Calzone. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at Spice N Slice Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 45% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Elkridge is about average, with a lower typical price than 361 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Columbia, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.02.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Elkridge? Gateway Pizza, Subs & Indian Cuisine, at $10.99 on 6520 Old Waterloo Rd. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should calzone cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Elkridge that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Columbia, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.02. That is $0.03 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.