Steak Tip in Lowell

3 restaurants in Lowell list steak tip on their menus. The cheapest is Rizzo's Roast Beef & Pizza at $17.50, listed as Steak Tip Dinner. The typical price across town is $21.99, and the dearest we found is $24.99 at Jillies Pizza & More, so the two ends of the list are $7.49 apart, which is 43% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track steak tip in 4 other areas and compare them all on steak tip across United States. The typical price there runs $21.44 at the median, so Lowell is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $14.50 at Family Pizzeria in Walpole, MA, and the highest best price is $18.95 in Boston, MA. The nearest area with it is Boston, about 25 mi away, where the best price is $18.95.

Where is the cheapest steak tip in Lowell? Rizzo's Roast Beef & Pizza, at $17.50 on 131 E Merrimack St. The same dish reaches $24.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.49.

What should steak tip cost here? About $21.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Lowell that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Boston, about 25 mi away, where the best price is $18.95. That is $1.45 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.