Garlic Bread in Ottawa

4 restaurants in Ottawa list garlic bread on their menus. The cheapest is Georgie's Pizza&Subs at $4.90. The typical price across town is $6.00, and the dearest we found is $7.95 at Colonnade Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.05 apart, which is 62% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track garlic bread in 2 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across Canada. The typical price there runs $8.99 at the median, so Ottawa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Chicken Kitchen Cambridge in Cambridge, ON, and the highest best price is $6.00 in Mississauga, ON. The nearest area with it is Mississauga, about 370 km away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in Ottawa? Georgie's Pizza&Subs, at $4.90 on 1661 Carling Avenue. The same dish reaches $7.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.05.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $6.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Ottawa 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 Mississauga, about 370 km away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.10 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.