Baked Ziti in Madison

5 restaurants in Madison list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Circle Pizza at $14.95. The typical price across town is $17.50, and the dearest we found is $19.65 at Grand Apizza Madison, so the two ends of the list are $4.70 apart, which is 31% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Madison is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 110 of the 459. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Guilford, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Madison? Circle Pizza, at $14.95 on 1278 Durham Rd. The same dish reaches $19.65 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.70.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $17.50 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Madison that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Guilford, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $1.05 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.