Pizza in Mentor

8 restaurants in Mentor list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Corduroy's at $7.20, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $10.00, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at P & P New York Style Pizza (Mentor), so the two ends of the list are $7.75 apart, which is 108% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1060 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Mentor is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1023 of the 1060. 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 Willoughby, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.50.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Mentor? Corduroy's, at $7.20 on 9131 Jordan Drive. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.75.

What should pizza cost here? About $10.00 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Mentor that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Willoughby, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.50. That is $4.30 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.