Mozzarella Sticks in New York

135 restaurants in New York list mozzarella sticks on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Master's Pizza at $4.00. The typical price across town is $9.75, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $8.00 at Angelo's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 40 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 0 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.95 at the median, so New York is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 363 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Krispy Krunchy Chicken & Pizzeria in Flushing, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in New York? Master's Pizza, at $4.00 on 5201 5th Ave. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $9.75 is the typical price across the 135 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 40 are 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 Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $4.50 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.