Calzone in Matawan

4 restaurants in Matawan list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Carlo's Gourmet Pizza & Pasta Matawan at $5.50, listed as Cheese Calzone. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at Famiglia Bistro Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $4.50 apart, which is 82% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Matawan is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 681 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is South Amboy, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Matawan? Carlo's Gourmet Pizza & Pasta Matawan, at $5.50 on 351 NJ-34. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.50.

What should calzone cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Matawan that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 South Amboy, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $3.00 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.