Shrimp Scampi in Newport News

3 restaurants in Newport News list shrimp scampi on their menus. The cheapest is Azzurri Italian Restaurant at $10.99, listed as Shrimp Scampi Lunch. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $19.49 at Joseph's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $8.50 apart, which is 77% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Newport News is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 267 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 Chesapeake, about 26 mi away, where the best price is $16.99.

Where is the cheapest shrimp scampi in Newport News? Azzurri Italian Restaurant, at $10.99 on 7 Hidenwood Shopping Center. The same dish reaches $19.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.50.

What should shrimp scampi cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Newport News that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Chesapeake, about 26 mi away, where the best price is $16.99. That is $6.00 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.