Shrimp Scampi in Massapequa

7 restaurants in Massapequa list shrimp scampi on their menus. The cheapest is Crostini Pizza North Broadway at $23.50. The typical price across town is $26.95, and the dearest we found is $35.00 at Calda Pizzeria & Restaurant (Massapequa), so the two ends of the list are $11.50 apart, which is 49% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 3 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 Massapequa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 42 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 Seaford, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $23.93.

Where is the cheapest shrimp scampi in Massapequa? Crostini Pizza North Broadway, at $23.50 on 947 N Broadway. The same dish reaches $35.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.50.

What should shrimp scampi cost here? About $26.95 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Massapequa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Seaford, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $23.93. That is $0.43 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.