Shrimp Scampi in Mahwah

6 restaurants in Mahwah list shrimp scampi on their menus. The cheapest is Mahwah Pizza Master at $21.20. The typical price across town is $28.29, and the dearest we found is $29.00 at Booyah! Mahwah, so the two ends of the list are $7.80 apart, which is 37% 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 shrimp scampi in 272 other areas and compare them all on shrimp scampi across United States. The typical price there runs $23.00 at the median, so Mahwah is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 of the 272. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Via Italian Table in Worcester, MA, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Westwood, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $22.95.

Where is the cheapest shrimp scampi in Mahwah? Mahwah Pizza Master, at $21.20 on 115 Franklin Turnpike. The same dish reaches $29.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.80.

What should shrimp scampi cost here? About $28.29 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 Westwood, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $22.95. That is $1.75 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.