Lasagna in Madison

3 restaurants in Madison list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Romanelli's Pizza & Italian Eatery at $11.95. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $23.84 at Italian Village Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $11.89 apart, which is 99% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Madison is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 593 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Summit, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $14.50.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Madison? Romanelli's Pizza & Italian Eatery, at $11.95 on 42 Lincoln Pl. The same dish reaches $23.84 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.89.

What should lasagna cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Madison 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 Summit, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $14.50. That is $2.55 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.