Parmigiana in Lansing

4 restaurants in Lansing list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Baba Ash Pizza & Grill at $11.99, listed as Chicken Parmesan. The typical price across town is $19.95, and the dearest we found is $22.99 at Bravo! Italian Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 92% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Lansing is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 211 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Ann Arbor, about 52 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Lansing? Baba Ash Pizza & Grill, at $11.99 on 1040 S Pennsylvania Ave Unit #2. The same dish reaches $22.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $19.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Lansing 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 Ann Arbor, about 52 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $4.00 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.