Baked Ziti in Melbourne

6 restaurants in Melbourne list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Bella Italia at $11.70. The typical price across town is $17.99, and the dearest we found is $24.00 at Mimmo's Pizza & Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $12.30 apart, which is 105% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Melbourne is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 77 of the 459. 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 West Melbourne, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $15.75.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Melbourne? Bella Italia, at $11.70 on 2447 N Wickham Rd Unit 136. The same dish reaches $24.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.30.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $17.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Melbourne that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 West Melbourne, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $15.75. That is $4.05 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.