Garlic Bread in Mahwah

6 restaurants in Mahwah list garlic bread on their menus. The cheapest is Sonny & Tony's Pizza & Italian Restaurant at $4.95. The typical price across town is $7.38, and the dearest we found is $8.25 at Mahwah Pizza Master, so the two ends of the list are $3.30 apart, which is 67% 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 garlic bread in 315 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across United States. The typical price there runs $6.25 at the median, so Mahwah is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 53 of the 315. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fortunato Brothers Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Manchester, NH. The nearest area with it is Ramsey, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $6.95.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in Mahwah? Sonny & Tony's Pizza & Italian Restaurant, at $4.95 on 400 Ridge Rd. The same dish reaches $8.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.30.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $7.38 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Mahwah 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 Ramsey, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $6.95. That is $2.00 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.