Chicken Cheesesteak in Lancaster

3 restaurants in Lancaster list chicken cheesesteak on their menus. The cheapest is Columbo's Pizza at $8.79. The typical price across town is $13.20, and the dearest we found is $13.75 at Antonio's Pizza House, so the two ends of the list are $4.96 apart, which is 56% 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 chicken cheesesteak in 14 other areas and compare them all on chicken cheesesteak across United States. The typical price there runs $11.99 at the median, so Lancaster is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 14. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.50 at Giorgio's Pizza in Chester, PA, and the highest best price is $11.99 in Boyertown, PA. The nearest area with it is Pottstown, about 37 mi away, where the best price is $9.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken cheesesteak in Lancaster? Columbo's Pizza, at $8.79 on 1226 Harrisburg Pike. The same dish reaches $13.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.96.

What should chicken cheesesteak cost here? About $13.20 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Lancaster 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 Pottstown, about 37 mi away, where the best price is $9.50. That is $0.71 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.