Spaghetti in Harrisburg

8 restaurants in Harrisburg list spaghetti on their menus. The cheapest is Tito's Diner at $6.99. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $15.69 at Bellia's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.70 apart, which is 124% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track spaghetti in 50 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti across United States. The typical price there runs $12.90 at the median, so Harrisburg is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 31 of the 50. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.90 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Jacksonville, FL. The nearest area with it is York, about 22 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti in Harrisburg? Tito's Diner, at $6.99 on 9 N Progress Ave. The same dish reaches $15.69 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.70.

What should spaghetti cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Harrisburg 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 York, about 22 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $3.00 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.