Baked Ziti in Jamaica

10 restaurants in Jamaica list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Benny's Pizza at $7.50. The typical price across town is $12.50, and the dearest we found is $17.50 at John's Pizzeria Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $10.00 apart, which is 133% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 460 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Jamaica is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 439 of the 460. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Ozone Park, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Jamaica? Benny's Pizza, at $7.50 on 175-63 Hillside Ave. The same dish reaches $17.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.00.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $12.50 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Jamaica that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Ozone Park, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $2.49 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.