Parmigiana in New Orleans

7 restaurants in New Orleans list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Easy Pizza at $12.99, listed as Chicken Parmesan. The typical price across town is $16.25, and the dearest we found is $28.00 at Patois, so the two ends of the list are $15.01 apart, which is 116% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 732 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so New Orleans is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 564 of the 732. 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 Birmingham, about 306 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in New Orleans? Easy Pizza, at $12.99 on 2013 S Claiborne. The same dish reaches $28.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.01.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $16.25 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in New Orleans that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Birmingham, about 306 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. 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.