Mozzarella Sticks in Long Beach

8 restaurants in Long Beach list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Porto Village Pizza 3 at $4.50. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $9.50 at Fat Tomato Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 111% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.95 at the median, so Long Beach is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 638 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Whittier, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Long Beach? Porto Village Pizza 3, at $4.50 on 2001 E S St. The same dish reaches $9.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Long Beach that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Whittier, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $2.49 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.