Parmigiana in New Brunswick

5 restaurants in New Brunswick list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Krispy Pizza at $12.00, listed as Eggplant Parmigiana. The typical price across town is $18.50, and the dearest we found is $27.95 at Catherine Lombardi, so the two ends of the list are $15.95 apart, which is 133% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 731 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so New Brunswick is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 352 of the 731. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.60 at Savarona Pizzeria & Restaurant in Shirley, NY, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Milltown, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in New Brunswick? Krispy Pizza, at $12.00 on 50 College Avenue. The same dish reaches $27.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.95.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $18.50 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in New Brunswick that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Milltown, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $3.99 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.