Garlic Bread in La Mesa

6 restaurants in La Mesa list garlic bread on their menus. The cheapest is D'Amato's Pizza - La Mesa at $4.50. The typical price across town is $7.34, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at New York New York Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.49 apart, which is 122% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track garlic bread in 315 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across United States. The typical price there runs $6.25 at the median, so La Mesa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 54 of the 315. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fortunato Brothers Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Manchester, NH. The nearest area with it is El Cajon, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $4.95.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in La Mesa? D'Amato's Pizza - La Mesa, at $4.50 on 8807 La Mesa Blvd. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.49.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $7.34 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in La Mesa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 $4.95. That is $0.45 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.