Lasagna in Newtown

3 restaurants in Newtown list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Franco's Pizza & Pasta at $15.99, listed as Meat Lasagna. The typical price across town is $21.95, and the dearest we found is $24.95 at Newtown Pizza Palace, so the two ends of the list are $8.96 apart, which is 56% 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 lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Newtown is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 36 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Bethel, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $13.95.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Newtown? Franco's Pizza & Pasta, at $15.99 on 228 S Main St. The same dish reaches $24.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.96.

What should lasagna cost here? About $21.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Newtown 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 Bethel, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $13.95. That is $2.04 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.