Cheese Steak Hoagie in Lebanon

6 restaurants in Lebanon list cheese steak hoagie on their menus. The cheapest is Sharky's Pizza at $10.50. The typical price across town is $12.50, and the dearest we found is $13.80 at Mancino's Pizza & Catering, so the two ends of the list are $3.30 apart, which is 31% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track cheese steak hoagie in 6 other areas and compare them all on cheese steak hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $14.95 at the median, so Lebanon is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.25 at Frank's Deli in Camden, NJ, and the highest best price is $13.99 in Berlin, NJ. The nearest area with it is Lansdale, about 60 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest cheese steak hoagie in Lebanon? Sharky's Pizza, at $10.50 on 118 S 8th St. The same dish reaches $13.80 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.30.

What should cheese steak hoagie cost here? About $12.50 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Lebanon 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 Lansdale, about 60 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $1.49 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.