Pizza in Madison

6 restaurants in Madison list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Circle Pizza at $10.00, listed as Plain Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.95, and the dearest we found is $15.70 at Portofino Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.70 apart, which is 57% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Madison is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 338 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Guilford, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Madison? Circle Pizza, at $10.00 on 1278 Durham Rd. The same dish reaches $15.70 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.70.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.95 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Madison that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 $10.99. That is $0.99 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.