Eggplant Parmigiana Pasta in Malden

3 restaurants in Malden list eggplant parmigiana pasta on their menus. The cheapest is Jay's Pizza & Ice Cream at $12.99. The typical price across town is $15.25, and the dearest we found is $15.49 at Catalina's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $2.50 apart, which is 19% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track eggplant parmigiana pasta in 12 other areas and compare them all on eggplant parmigiana pasta across United States. The typical price there runs $15.00 at the median, so Malden is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 12. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Super Mario's Pizza in Knoxville, TN, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Somerville, MA. The nearest area with it is Somerville, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest eggplant parmigiana pasta in Malden? Jay's Pizza & Ice Cream, at $12.99 on 167 Centre St. The same dish reaches $15.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.50.

What should eggplant parmigiana pasta cost here? About $15.25 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Malden that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Somerville, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. 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.