Cheesesteak Hoagie in Mount Joy

3 restaurants in Mount Joy list cheesesteak hoagie on their menus. The cheapest is Papa's Pizza at $11.00. The typical price across town is $12.49, and the dearest we found is $12.69 at DiMaria's NY Pizza & Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $1.69 apart, which is 15% 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 cheesesteak hoagie in 39 other areas and compare them all on cheesesteak hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $13.25 at the median, so Mount Joy is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 31 of the 39. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.95 at Tony's Pizzeria in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $13.00 in Glenolden, PA. The nearest area with it is Palmyra, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $11.00.

Where is the cheapest cheesesteak hoagie in Mount Joy? Papa's Pizza, at $11.00 on 454 W Main St. The same dish reaches $12.69 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.69.

What should cheesesteak hoagie cost here? About $12.49 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Mount Joy 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 Palmyra, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $11.00. That is the same as 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.