Spaghetti And Meatballs in Oceanside

3 restaurants in Oceanside list spaghetti and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is D'Cocco's Restaurant & Pizzeria at $14.95, listed as Spaghetti with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $17.95, and the dearest we found is $18.95 at Bonbino's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 27% 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 spaghetti and meatballs in 215 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Oceanside is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 54 of the 215. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.40 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Delray Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Rockville Centre, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $18.00.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti and meatballs in Oceanside? D'Cocco's Restaurant & Pizzeria, at $14.95 on 3573 Long Beach Rd. The same dish reaches $18.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should spaghetti and meatballs cost here? About $17.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Oceanside 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 Rockville Centre, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $18.00. That is $3.05 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.