Grilled Cheese Sandwich in Norfolk

4 restaurants in Norfolk list grilled cheese sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Philly Style Steaks & Subs at $6.78. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $8.95 at Jesse's Place, so the two ends of the list are $2.17 apart, which is 32% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 $7.85 at the median, so Norfolk is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 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 Arlington, about 149 mi away, where the best price is $7.50.

Where is the cheapest grilled cheese sandwich in Norfolk? Philly Style Steaks & Subs, at $6.78 on 7450A Tidewater Dr. The same dish reaches $8.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.17.

What should grilled cheese sandwich cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Norfolk that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Arlington, about 149 mi away, where the best price is $7.50. That is $0.72 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.