Garlic Knots in Holyoke

4 restaurants in Holyoke list garlic knots on their menus. The cheapest is Paramount Pizza Slices at $6.00. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $11.85 at Holyoke Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.85 apart, which is 98% 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 garlic knots in 174 other areas and compare them all on garlic knots across United States. The typical price there runs $6.95 at the median, so Holyoke is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 12 of the 174. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fratelli's Pizza & Pasta in Clifton, NJ, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Chicopee, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.95.

Where is the cheapest garlic knots in Holyoke? Paramount Pizza Slices, at $6.00 on 2213 Northampton St. The same dish reaches $11.85 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.85.

What should garlic knots cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Holyoke 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 Chicopee, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.95. That is $2.95 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.