Ravioli in Palatine

3 restaurants in Palatine list ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Pedro's Pizza at $11.00. The typical price across town is $13.85, and the dearest we found is $16.25 at Napoli Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.25 apart, which is 48% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track ravioli in 38 other areas and compare them all on ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so Palatine is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 32 of the 38. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.55 at Pizza Peddler in Natick, MA, and the highest best price is $17.00 in Medford, NJ. The nearest area with it is Rockford, about 54 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest ravioli in Palatine? Pedro's Pizza, at $11.00 on 1513 N Rand Rd. The same dish reaches $16.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.25.

What should ravioli cost here? About $13.85 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Palatine 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 Rockford, about 54 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $0.99 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.