Pastrami Sandwich in Los Angeles

10 restaurants in Los Angeles list pastrami sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Robert's Deli Pizza at $8.00. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $20.56 at Prego Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $12.56 apart, which is 157% 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 pastrami sandwich in 8 other areas and compare them all on pastrami sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $11.50 at the median, so Los Angeles is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.45 at Giovanni's Roast Beef & Pizza in Saugus, MA, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Glendale, CA. The nearest area with it is Glendale, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest pastrami sandwich in Los Angeles? Robert's Deli Pizza, at $8.00 on 1713 E Vernon Ave # 115. The same dish reaches $20.56 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.56.

What should pastrami sandwich cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Los Angeles 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 Glendale, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $7.99 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.