Lasagna in Hopatcong

3 restaurants in Hopatcong list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Grotto Pizza at $12.50. The typical price across town is $19.85, and the dearest we found is $19.95 at Frank's Pizza Hopatcong, so the two ends of the list are $7.45 apart, which is 60% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Hopatcong is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 113 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Budd Lake, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Hopatcong? Grotto Pizza, at $12.50 on 454 River Styx Rd. The same dish reaches $19.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.45.

What should lasagna cost here? About $19.85 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Hopatcong that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Budd Lake, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $13.00. That is $0.50 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.