Grilled Cheese Sandwich in Lowell

5 restaurants in Lowell list grilled cheese sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Rizzo's Roast Beef & Pizza at $4.99. The typical price across town is $5.99, and the dearest we found is $11.24 at Jillies Pizza & More, so the two ends of the list are $6.25 apart, which is 125% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 0 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 grilled cheese sandwich in 20 other areas and compare them all on grilled cheese sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Lowell is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 20 of the 20. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Papa Nick's Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Boothwyn, PA. The nearest area with it is Haverhill, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $5.20.

Where is the cheapest grilled cheese sandwich in Lowell? Rizzo's Roast Beef & Pizza, at $4.99 on 131 E Merrimack St. The same dish reaches $11.24 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.25.

What should grilled cheese sandwich cost here? About $5.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Lowell that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 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 Haverhill, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $5.20. That is $0.21 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.