Ravioli in Far Rockaway

4 restaurants in Far Rockaway list ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Buona Pizza at $10.00. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at Plum Tomatoes by La Sorrentina, so the two ends of the list are $4.95 apart, which is 50% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 ravioli in 38 other areas and compare them all on ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so Far Rockaway is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 33 of the 38. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.55 at Pizza Peddler in Natick, MA, and the highest best price is $17.00 in Medford, NJ. The nearest area with it is Forest Hills, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $12.95.

Where is the cheapest ravioli in Far Rockaway? Buona Pizza, at $10.00 on 32-13 Beach Channel Dr. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.95.

What should ravioli cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Far Rockaway that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Forest Hills, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $12.95. That is $2.95 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.