Fish Sandwich in Iowa City

3 restaurants in Iowa City list fish sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Sam's Pizza at $8.99. The typical price across town is $16.75, and the dearest we found is $17.49 at Stella, so the two ends of the list are $8.50 apart, which is 95% 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 fish sandwich in 14 other areas and compare them all on fish sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Iowa City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 14. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.99 at Mayback's Pizza & Subs in Buffalo, NY, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Syracuse, NY. The nearest area with it is Milwaukee, about 207 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest fish sandwich in Iowa City? Sam's Pizza, at $8.99 on 441 S Gilbert St. The same dish reaches $17.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.50.

What should fish sandwich cost here? About $16.75 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Iowa City 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 Milwaukee, about 207 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. 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.