Calamari in Franklin

4 restaurants in Franklin list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is TJ's Banginboli.Pizza at $10.29, listed as BUFFALO CALAMARI. The typical price across town is $13.20, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at Franklin Dominick's, so the two ends of the list are $4.66 apart, which is 45% 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 calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so Franklin is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 428 of the 493. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Dover, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $14.50.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Franklin? TJ's Banginboli.Pizza, at $10.29 on 109 NJ-23. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.66.

What should calamari cost here? About $13.20 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Franklin 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 Dover, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $14.50. That is $4.21 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.