Baked Ziti in Mesa

4 restaurants in Mesa list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Venezia's Pizzeria at $12.49. The typical price across town is $17.99, and the dearest we found is $18.25 at Bella Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $5.76 apart, which is 46% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 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 Mesa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 77 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 Phoenix, about 24 mi away, where the best price is $13.99.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Mesa? Venezia's Pizzeria, at $12.49 on 5057 East McKellips Road. The same dish reaches $18.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.76.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $17.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Mesa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Phoenix, about 24 mi away, where the best price is $13.99. That is $1.50 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.