Baked Ziti in Lebanon

4 restaurants in Lebanon list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is A & M Pizza Restaurant at $11.75, listed as Baked Ziti Lunch. The typical price across town is $15.14, and the dearest we found is $16.50 at A & J Pizza & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $4.75 apart, which is 40% 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 baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Lebanon is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 300 of the 459. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Palmyra, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Lebanon? A & M Pizza Restaurant, at $11.75 on 1705 E Cumberland St. The same dish reaches $16.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.75.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $15.14 is the typical price across the 4 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 Palmyra, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $3.24 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.