Calamari in Little Falls

5 restaurants in Little Falls list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza & Sandwich Express at $12.95, listed as Fried Calamari. The typical price across town is $14.25, and the dearest we found is $16.45 at Anthony Francos Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.50 apart, which is 27% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so Little Falls is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 351 of the 493. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Fairfield, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.50.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Little Falls? Pizza & Sandwich Express, at $12.95 on 59 Main St. The same dish reaches $16.45 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.50.

What should calamari cost here? About $14.25 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Little Falls that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 are 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 Fairfield, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.50. That is $1.55 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.