Baked Ziti in Meriden

9 restaurants in Meriden list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Carmine's Pizza at $9.99, listed as Baked Ziti Lunch Special. The typical price across town is $15.25, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Gino's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.01 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 460 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Meriden is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 296 of the 460. 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 Wallingford, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $16.95.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Meriden? Carmine's Pizza, at $9.99 on 994 W Main St. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.01.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $15.25 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Meriden 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 Wallingford, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $16.95. That is $6.96 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.