Pizza in Ithaca

8 restaurants in Ithaca list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Eta Pie at $9.15, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.10, and the dearest we found is $17.95 at Komonz Grill, so the two ends of the list are $8.80 apart, which is 96% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Ithaca is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 416 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Cortland, about 19 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Ithaca? Eta Pie, at $9.15 on 1006 W Seneca St. The same dish reaches $17.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.80.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.10 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Ithaca that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Cortland, about 19 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $5.84 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.