Baked Ziti in Norwalk

10 restaurants in Norwalk list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Planet Pizza at $9.25, listed as Baked Ziti Lunch. The typical price across town is $16.99, and the dearest we found is $20.49 at Leonardo's, so the two ends of the list are $11.24 apart, which is 122% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 460 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Norwalk is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 142 of the 460. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Westport, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Norwalk? Planet Pizza, at $9.25 on 607 Main Ave. The same dish reaches $20.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.24.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $16.99 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Norwalk that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are 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 Westport, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $5.74 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.