Fettuccine Alfredo in Jamaica

4 restaurants in Jamaica list fettuccine alfredo on their menus. The cheapest is Alba's Pizzeria & Restaurant at $13.50. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Mario's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.50 apart, which is 26% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track fettuccine alfredo in 191 other areas and compare them all on fettuccine alfredo across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so Jamaica is about average, with a lower typical price than 90 of the 191. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Crave Italian Oven & Bar in North Myrtle Beach, SC, and the highest best price is $19.99 in Torrington, CT. The nearest area with it is Forest Hills, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.95.

Where is the cheapest fettuccine alfredo in Jamaica? Alba's Pizzeria & Restaurant, at $13.50 on 13765 Queens Blvd. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.50.

What should fettuccine alfredo cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Jamaica 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 Forest Hills, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.95. That is $1.45 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.