Pizza in Framingham

5 restaurants in Framingham list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Anastasia's Pizza Oven & Grill at $9.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $13.80, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Bertucci's Brick Oven Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 pizza in 1060 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Framingham is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 550 of the 1060. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Natick, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Framingham? Anastasia's Pizza Oven & Grill, at $9.99 on 12 Union Ave. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should pizza cost here? About $13.80 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Framingham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Natick, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $0.01 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.