Pizza in Melbourne

8 restaurants in Melbourne list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Straight Outta Philly Melbourne Wickham at $11.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $17.25 at Mimmo's Pizza & Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $5.26 apart, which is 44% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Melbourne is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 309 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Palm bay, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Melbourne? Straight Outta Philly Melbourne Wickham, at $11.99 on 4250 N Wickham Rd. The same dish reaches $17.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.26.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Melbourne that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Palm bay, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is the same as 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.