Stuffed Shells in Manalapan

3 restaurants in Manalapan list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Sal's Gourmet Pizza at $13.99, listed as Stuffed Shells Lunch. The typical price across town is $15.95, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Romeo's Pizza Manalapan, so the two ends of the list are $2.01 apart, which is 14% 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 stuffed shells in 250 other areas and compare them all on stuffed shells across United States. The typical price there runs $16.45 at the median, so Manalapan is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 152 of the 250. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Mr P Pizza & Pasta in North Wales, PA, and the highest best price is $20.10 in West Springfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Freehold, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Manalapan? Sal's Gourmet Pizza, at $13.99 on 356 U.S. 9. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.01.

What should stuffed shells cost here? About $15.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Manalapan 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 Freehold, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $1.99 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.