Shrimp Scampi in Far Rockaway

4 restaurants in Far Rockaway list shrimp scampi on their menus. The cheapest is 263 Pizzeria Corp Former J & M Pizza at $19.50. The typical price across town is $27.50, and the dearest we found is $29.00 at Plum Tomatoes by La Sorrentina, so the two ends of the list are $9.50 apart, which is 49% 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 shrimp scampi in 272 other areas and compare them all on shrimp scampi across United States. The typical price there runs $23.00 at the median, so Far Rockaway is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 32 of the 272. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Via Italian Table in Worcester, MA, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Ozone Park, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $20.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp scampi in Far Rockaway? 263 Pizzeria Corp Former J & M Pizza, at $19.50 on 263 Beach 20th St. The same dish reaches $29.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.50.

What should shrimp scampi cost here? About $27.50 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 Ozone Park, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $20.00. 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.