Pizza in Minneapolis

17 restaurants in Minneapolis list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Uptown Pizza at $9.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $27.99 at Sal's On Fifth, so the two ends of the list are $18.00 apart, which is 180% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 8 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1060 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Minneapolis is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 419 of the 1060. 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 Saint Paul, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $11.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Minneapolis? Uptown Pizza, at $9.99 on 323 W Lake St. The same dish reaches $27.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $18.00.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Minneapolis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 8 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 Saint Paul, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $11.00. That is $1.01 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.