Lasagna in Mechanicsville

3 restaurants in Mechanicsville list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Mimmo's Italian Restaurant & Pizza at $13.75, listed as Baked Lasagna. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $18.50 at Anna's Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $4.75 apart, which is 35% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Mechanicsville is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 493 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Henrico, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $14.49.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Mechanicsville? Mimmo's Italian Restaurant & Pizza, at $13.75 on 8319 Bell Creek Rd. The same dish reaches $18.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.75.

What should lasagna cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Mechanicsville that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Henrico, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $14.49. That is $0.74 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.