Seafood in Forked River

3 restaurants in Forked River list seafood on their menus. The cheapest is Little Italy Pizza at $23.95, listed as Seafood Combo. The typical price across town is $25.95, and the dearest we found is $25.95 at Fusaro Pizza and Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $2.00 apart, which is 8% 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 seafood in 7 other areas and compare them all on seafood across United States. The typical price there runs $23.99 at the median, so Forked River is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.00 at Ramos Pizza in New Windsor, NY, and the highest best price is $20.95 in Toms River, NJ. The nearest area with it is Toms River, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $20.95.

Where is the cheapest seafood in Forked River? Little Italy Pizza, at $23.95 on 15 Lacey Rd. The same dish reaches $25.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.00.

What should seafood cost here? About $25.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Forked River 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 Toms River, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $20.95. That is $3.00 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.