Mozzarella Sticks in Long Island City

10 restaurants in Long Island City list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Blinks Deli & Pizza at $6.00. The typical price across town is $8.95, and the dearest we found is $16.95 at Gracie's Diner, so the two ends of the list are $10.95 apart, which is 182% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge 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 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 Island City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 520 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 Sunnyside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Long Island City? Blinks Deli & Pizza, at $6.00 on 43-01 35th St. The same dish reaches $16.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.95.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $8.95 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Long Island City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are 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 Sunnyside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. 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.