Fettuccine Alfredo in Lebanon

3 restaurants in Lebanon list fettuccine alfredo on their menus. The cheapest is A & M Pizza Restaurant at $11.75, listed as Fettuccine Alfredo Lunch. The typical price across town is $13.50, and the dearest we found is $16.15 at CJ Ephrata Pizza 2, so the two ends of the list are $4.40 apart, which is 37% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 fettuccine alfredo in 191 other areas and compare them all on fettuccine alfredo across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so Lebanon is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 176 of the 191. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Crave Italian Oven & Bar in North Myrtle Beach, SC, and the highest best price is $19.99 in Torrington, CT. The nearest area with it is Palmyra, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $13.99.

Where is the cheapest fettuccine alfredo in Lebanon? A & M Pizza Restaurant, at $11.75 on 1705 E Cumberland St. The same dish reaches $16.15 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.40.

What should fettuccine alfredo cost here? About $13.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Lebanon that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Palmyra, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $13.99. That is $2.24 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.