Lasagna in Essex

3 restaurants in Essex list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is New York Fried Chicken Pizza & Subs at $10.99, listed as Meat Lasagna. The typical price across town is $13.65, and the dearest we found is $13.99 at Prima Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.00 apart, which is 27% 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 lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Essex is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 571 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Dundalk, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Essex? New York Fried Chicken Pizza & Subs, at $10.99 on 151 Back River Neck Rd. The same dish reaches $13.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.00.

What should lasagna cost here? About $13.65 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Essex 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 Dundalk, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $1.00 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.