Lasagna in Neptune City

3 restaurants in Neptune City list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Pete & Elda's at $14.50, listed as Baked Lasagna. The typical price across town is $18.40, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Tony's Pizzeria & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $4.49 apart, which is 31% 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 lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Neptune City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 206 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Neptune, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $15.35.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Neptune City? Pete & Elda's, at $14.50 on 96 Woodland Ave. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.49.

What should lasagna cost here? About $18.40 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Neptune City 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 Neptune, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $15.35. That is $0.85 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.