Meatball Sandwich in Los Angeles

13 restaurants in Los Angeles list meatball sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Loyola Pizza at $7.50. The typical price across town is $12.80, and the dearest we found is $19.35 at Prego Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $11.85 apart, which is 158% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track meatball sandwich in 34 other areas and compare them all on meatball sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $11.99 at the median, so Los Angeles is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 14 of the 34. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Guerrero's Pizza in Chicago, IL, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Houston, TX. The nearest area with it is San Fernando, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest meatball sandwich in Los Angeles? Loyola Pizza, at $7.50 on 8412 Lincoln Blvd. The same dish reaches $19.35 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.85.

What should meatball sandwich cost here? About $12.80 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 San Fernando, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $4.49 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.