Meatball Sandwich in New Orleans

6 restaurants in New Orleans list meatball sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Vieux Carre Wingery at $9.02. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at One More Pie, so the two ends of the list are $8.98 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 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 meatball sandwich in 34 other areas and compare them all on meatball sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $11.99 at the median, so New Orleans is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 34. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Guerrero's Pizza in Chicago, IL, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Houston, TX. The nearest area with it is Houston, about 326 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest meatball sandwich in New Orleans? Vieux Carre Wingery, at $9.02 on 729 St Louis St. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.98.

What should meatball sandwich cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in New Orleans 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 Houston, about 326 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $2.98 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.