Baked Ziti in Forest Hills

10 restaurants in Forest Hills list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza & Pasta City at $8.99. The typical price across town is $16.20, and the dearest we found is $18.90 at Mezze Kosher Mediterranean Pizza Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $9.91 apart, which is 110% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Forest Hills is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 206 of the 459. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Rego Park, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Forest Hills? Pizza & Pasta City, at $8.99 on 6444 108th St. The same dish reaches $18.90 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.91.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $16.20 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Forest Hills that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Rego Park, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $13.00. That is $4.01 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.