Stuffed Shells in Merrick

5 restaurants in Merrick list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Michael Anthony's Pizza at $13.95. The typical price across town is $15.95, and the dearest we found is $18.46 at Montana Brothers, so the two ends of the list are $4.51 apart, which is 32% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 stuffed shells in 250 other areas and compare them all on stuffed shells across United States. The typical price there runs $16.45 at the median, so Merrick is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 152 of the 250. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Mr P Pizza & Pasta in North Wales, PA, and the highest best price is $20.10 in West Springfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Freeport, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $15.95.

Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Merrick? Michael Anthony's Pizza, at $13.95 on 1383 Jerusalem Ave. The same dish reaches $18.46 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.51.

What should stuffed shells cost here? About $15.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Merrick that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Freeport, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $15.95. That is $2.00 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.