Calzone in Long Branch

7 restaurants in Long Branch list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is La Riva Pizza & Cafe at $9.00, listed as Broccoli Calzone. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $18.49 at Scala's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $9.49 apart, which is 105% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Long Branch is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 603 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is West Long Branch, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Long Branch? La Riva Pizza & Cafe, at $9.00 on 638 Ocean Ave. The same dish reaches $18.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.49.

What should calzone cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Long Branch that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 3 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 West Long Branch, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $1.00 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.