Stromboli in Madison

3 restaurants in Madison list stromboli on their menus. The cheapest is Formaggios Pizzeria at $7.95, listed as Cheese Stromboli. The typical price across town is $10.95, and the dearest we found is $12.95 at Main Street Submarines, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 63% 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 stromboli in 456 other areas and compare them all on stromboli across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Madison is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 415 of the 456. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Da Vinci Pizzeria in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $18.29 in Cape May, NJ. The nearest area with it is Summit, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest stromboli in Madison? Formaggios Pizzeria, at $7.95 on 36 Main St. The same dish reaches $12.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should stromboli cost here? About $10.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Madison 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 Summit, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $2.05 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.