Grilled Cheese Sandwich in Newtown Square

3 restaurants in Newtown Square list grilled cheese sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Providence Pizzeria at $4.63. The typical price across town is $6.25, and the dearest we found is $6.35 at Euro Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $1.72 apart, which is 37% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track grilled cheese sandwich in 20 other areas and compare them all on grilled cheese sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Newtown Square is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 of the 20. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Papa Nick's Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Boothwyn, PA. The nearest area with it is Drexel Hill, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.95.

Where is the cheapest grilled cheese sandwich in Newtown Square? Providence Pizzeria, at $4.63 on 5003 West Chester Pike. The same dish reaches $6.35 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.72.

What should grilled cheese sandwich cost here? About $6.25 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Newtown Square that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Drexel Hill, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.95. That is $1.32 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.