Stromboli in Ocean City

3 restaurants in Ocean City list stromboli on their menus. The cheapest is Pisa Pizza at $10.50. The typical price across town is $13.50, and the dearest we found is $14.00 at Roma Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.50 apart, which is 33% 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 stromboli in 456 other areas and compare them all on stromboli across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Ocean City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 242 of the 456. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Da Vinci Pizzeria in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $18.29 in Cape May, NJ. The nearest area with it is Somers Point, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest stromboli in Ocean City? Pisa Pizza, at $10.50 on 812 Boardwalk. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.50.

What should stromboli cost here? About $13.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Ocean City 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 Somers Point, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $1.50 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.