Tuna Melt in Norfolk

3 restaurants in Norfolk list tuna melt on their menus. The cheapest is Zeke's at $9.50. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $13.95 at Jesse's Place, so the two ends of the list are $4.45 apart, which is 47% 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 tuna melt in 1 other area and compare them all on tuna melt across United States. The typical price there runs $13.99 at the median, so Norfolk is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.99 at Pizza Towne in Westfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Westfield, about 407 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest tuna melt in Norfolk? Zeke's, at $9.50 on 800 Granby Street. The same dish reaches $13.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.45.

What should tuna melt cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Norfolk 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 Westfield, about 407 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $2.49 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.