Sausage Parmigiana in Hopatcong

3 restaurants in Hopatcong list sausage parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Grotto Pizza at $12.50. The typical price across town is $19.80, and the dearest we found is $21.50 at Frank's Pizza Hopatcong, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 72% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 sausage parmigiana in 8 other areas and compare them all on sausage parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.95 at the median, so Hopatcong is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Wings To Go & Grande Pizza in Hoboken, NJ, and the highest best price is $17.50 in Brewster, NY. The nearest area with it is Newton, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $15.95.

Where is the cheapest sausage parmigiana in Hopatcong? Grotto Pizza, at $12.50 on 454 River Styx Rd. The same dish reaches $21.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should sausage parmigiana cost here? About $19.80 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 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 Newton, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $15.95. That is $3.45 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.