Shrimp Scampi in New City

7 restaurants in New City list shrimp scampi on their menus. The cheapest is Gio's Restaurant at $10.99. The typical price across town is $23.92, and the dearest we found is $25.30 at Napoli's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $14.31 apart, which is 130% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp scampi in 272 other areas and compare them all on shrimp scampi across United States. The typical price there runs $23.00 at the median, so New City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 122 of the 272. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Via Italian Table in Worcester, MA, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Nyack, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $21.80.

Where is the cheapest shrimp scampi in New City? Gio's Restaurant, at $10.99 on 253 S Little Tor Rd. The same dish reaches $25.30 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.31.

What should shrimp scampi cost here? About $23.92 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in New City 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 Nyack, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $21.80. That is $10.81 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.