Pizza in Emmaus

5 restaurants in Emmaus list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Big Woody's at $7.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $16.99 at Papa Rossi's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 113% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Emmaus is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 278 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Coopersburg, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Emmaus? Big Woody's, at $7.99 on 3941 Chestnut St. The same dish reaches $16.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should pizza cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Emmaus 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 Coopersburg, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $3.00 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.