Bruschetta in Lakeland

5 restaurants in Lakeland list bruschetta on their menus. The cheapest is Romeo's Pizza & Pasta at $8.95. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $11.49 at Il Forno Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $2.54 apart, which is 28% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 bruschetta in 109 other areas and compare them all on bruschetta across United States. The typical price there runs $11.10 at the median, so Lakeland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 62 of the 109. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.35 at Italian Delight in Powhatan, VA, and the highest best price is $17.95 in West Babylon, NY. The nearest area with it is Orlando, about 48 mi away, where the best price is $9.35.

Where is the cheapest bruschetta in Lakeland? Romeo's Pizza & Pasta, at $8.95 on 2346 Griffin Rd. The same dish reaches $11.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.54.

What should bruschetta cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Lakeland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Orlando, about 48 mi away, where the best price is $9.35. That is $0.40 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.