Mozzarella Sticks in Fanwood

3 restaurants in Fanwood list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Fabio's Bistro at $8.00. The typical price across town is $9.35, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Nunzio's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $1.99 apart, which is 25% 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 mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.95 at the median, so Fanwood is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 418 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Watchung, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Fanwood? Fabio's Bistro, at $8.00 on 217 South Ave. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.99.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $9.35 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Fanwood 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 Watchung, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $0.50 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.