Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich in La Mesa

3 restaurants in La Mesa list philly cheese steak sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is D'Amato's Pizza - La Mesa at $10.65. The typical price across town is $14.50, and the dearest we found is $15.74 at New York Giant Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.09 apart, which is 48% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track philly cheese steak sandwich in 2 other areas and compare them all on philly cheese steak sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so La Mesa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.99 at Brothers' Giant Pizza in San Diego, CA, and the highest best price is $11.95 in El Cajon, CA. The nearest area with it is El Cajon, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $11.95.

Where is the cheapest philly cheese steak sandwich in La Mesa? D'Amato's Pizza - La Mesa, at $10.65 on 8807 La Mesa Blvd. The same dish reaches $15.74 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.09.

What should philly cheese steak sandwich cost here? About $14.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in La Mesa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 $11.95. That is $1.30 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.