Parmigiana in Garwood

4 restaurants in Garwood list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Roma Pizzeria at $14.50, listed as Eggplant Parmigiana. The typical price across town is $19.99, and the dearest we found is $21.95 at Lorenzo's Fresh Italian Cooking, so the two ends of the list are $7.45 apart, which is 51% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Garwood is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 197 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Cranford, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $14.95.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Garwood? Roma Pizzeria, at $14.50 on 98 North Ave. The same dish reaches $21.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.45.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $19.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Garwood 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 Cranford, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $14.95. That is $0.45 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.