Garlic Bread in Matawan

4 restaurants in Matawan list garlic bread on their menus. The cheapest is Famiglia Bistro Pizzeria at $4.00. The typical price across town is $5.50, and the dearest we found is $5.99 at Amano Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $1.99 apart, which is 50% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 garlic bread in 315 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across United States. The typical price there runs $6.25 at the median, so Matawan is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 263 of the 315. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fortunato Brothers Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Manchester, NH. The nearest area with it is Keyport, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.95.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in Matawan? Famiglia Bistro Pizzeria, at $4.00 on 4 Morristown Rd. The same dish reaches $5.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.99.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $5.50 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Matawan 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 Keyport, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.95. That is $0.95 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.