Parmigiana in North Plainfield

3 restaurants in North Plainfield list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Pepe's Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant at $8.25, listed as Meatball Parmigiana. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $18.95 at La Strada Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $10.70 apart, which is 130% 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 parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so North Plainfield is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 730 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Watchung, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in North Plainfield? Pepe's Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant, at $8.25 on 117 Watchung Ave. The same dish reaches $18.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.70.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in North Plainfield 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 Watchung, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $7.75 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.