Garlic Knots in Lebanon

3 restaurants in Lebanon list garlic knots on their menus. The cheapest is A & J Pizza & Restaurant at $4.50. The typical price across town is $6.00, and the dearest we found is $8.50 at Mancino's Pizza & Catering, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 89% 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 garlic knots in 174 other areas and compare them all on garlic knots across United States. The typical price there runs $6.95 at the median, so Lebanon is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 112 of the 174. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fratelli's Pizza & Pasta in Clifton, NJ, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Ephrata, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest garlic knots in Lebanon? A & J Pizza & Restaurant, at $4.50 on 1130 PA-72. The same dish reaches $8.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should garlic knots cost here? About $6.00 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 Ephrata, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. That is the same as 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.