Piccata in Emmaus

3 restaurants in Emmaus list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Armetta's Italian Restaurant & Pub at $21.00, listed as Chicken Piccata. The typical price across town is $23.99, and the dearest we found is $24.99 at Papa Rossi's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $3.99 apart, which is 19% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track piccata in 154 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $21.99 at the median, so Emmaus is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 43 of the 154. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Allentown, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $18.80.

Where is the cheapest piccata in Emmaus? Armetta's Italian Restaurant & Pub, at $21.00 on 301 Main St. The same dish reaches $24.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.99.

What should piccata cost here? About $23.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Emmaus that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Allentown, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $18.80. That is $2.20 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.