Baked Ziti in Metuchen

3 restaurants in Metuchen list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Antonio's Brick Oven Pizza at $12.50. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at L&L Pizza & Pasta New York Style, so the two ends of the list are $2.45 apart, which is 20% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Metuchen is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 373 of the 459. 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 Edison, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Metuchen? Antonio's Brick Oven Pizza, at $12.50 on 453 Main St. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.45.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Metuchen that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Edison, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $2.49 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.