Garlic Bread in Oakland

10 restaurants in Oakland list garlic bread on their menus. The cheapest is Purple Pepper Pizza at $4.99. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $11.99 at Namaste Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 140% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic bread in 315 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across United States. The typical price there runs $6.25 at the median, so Oakland is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 28 of the 315. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fortunato Brothers Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Manchester, NH. The nearest area with it is Alameda, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in Oakland? Purple Pepper Pizza, at $4.99 on 4496 Broadway. The same dish reaches $11.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Oakland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Alameda, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $5.00. That is $0.01 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.