BLT Sandwich in La Mesa

3 restaurants in La Mesa list BLT sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is D'Amato's Pizza - La Mesa at $9.85. The typical price across town is $11.50, and the dearest we found is $11.99 at Uncle Joey's Pizza & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $2.14 apart, which is 22% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track BLT sandwich in 23 other areas and compare them all on BLT sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $9.00 at the median, so La Mesa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 23. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.99 at Chicago Pizza & Grill in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $11.90 in Saint Louis, MO. The nearest area with it is El Cajon, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest BLT sandwich in La Mesa? D'Amato's Pizza - La Mesa, at $9.85 on 8807 La Mesa Blvd. The same dish reaches $11.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.14.

What should BLT sandwich cost here? About $11.50 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 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 $0.14 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.