Pizza in Meriden

15 restaurants in Meriden list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Wooster Street Pizza Meriden at $8.50, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $11.50, and the dearest we found is $19.99 at Honeyspot Pizza 4, so the two ends of the list are $11.49 apart, which is 135% more for the same dish. Of the 15 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 6 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 Meriden is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 922 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 Wallingford, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.15.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Meriden? Wooster Street Pizza Meriden, at $8.50 on 482 Cook Ave. The same dish reaches $19.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.49.

What should pizza cost here? About $11.50 is the typical price across the 15 kitchens in Meriden that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Wallingford, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.15. That is $1.65 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.