Baked Ziti in Matawan

4 restaurants in Matawan list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Carlo's Gourmet Pizza & Pasta Matawan at $8.75, listed as Baked Ziti Lunch. The typical price across town is $16.99, and the dearest we found is $17.95 at Stevies Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $9.20 apart, which is 105% 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 baked ziti in 460 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Matawan is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 142 of the 460. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Keyport, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.95.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Matawan? Carlo's Gourmet Pizza & Pasta Matawan, at $8.75 on 351 NJ-34. The same dish reaches $17.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.20.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $16.99 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 Keyport, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.95. That is $3.20 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.