Calzone in La Mesa

4 restaurants in La Mesa list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Uncle Joey's Pizza & Grill at $9.99, listed as One Topping Calzone. The typical price across town is $15.74, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at New York New York Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 60% 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 calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so La Mesa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 88 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is El Cajon, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest calzone in La Mesa? Uncle Joey's Pizza & Grill, at $9.99 on 7520 El Cajon Boulevard. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should calzone cost here? About $15.74 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in La Mesa 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 El Cajon, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. 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.