Stromboli in Hollywood

10 restaurants in Hollywood list stromboli on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Castle at $9.99, listed as BBQ Chicken Stromboli. The typical price across town is $17.95, and the dearest we found is $24.60 at Vannucchi Brothers Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $14.61 apart, which is 146% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track stromboli in 456 other areas and compare them all on stromboli across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Hollywood is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 28 of the 456. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Da Vinci Pizzeria in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $18.29 in Cape May, NJ. The nearest area with it is Davie, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest stromboli in Hollywood? Pizza Castle, at $9.99 on 6600 Stirling. The same dish reaches $24.60 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.61.

What should stromboli cost here? About $17.95 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Hollywood that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Davie, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is the same as 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.