Pizza in Erie

4 restaurants in Erie list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Ringside Restaurant at $6.95, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Presque Isle Downs & Casino Floor Bars (The Hub & Bar 90), so the two ends of the list are $9.05 apart, which is 130% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits 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 Erie is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 418 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 Mentor, about 71 mi away, where the best price is $7.20.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Erie? Ringside Restaurant, at $6.95 on 3202 Sterrettania Rd. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.05.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Erie 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 Mentor, about 71 mi away, where the best price is $7.20. That is $0.25 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.