Baked Ziti in Paterson

4 restaurants in Paterson list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Sam's Pizza by City Catering at $11.50. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $13.50 at Jersey Sub & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $2.00 apart, which is 17% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Paterson is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 422 of the 459. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Fair Lawn, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.75.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Paterson? Sam's Pizza by City Catering, at $11.50 on 847 Main St. The same dish reaches $13.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.00.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Paterson 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 Fair Lawn, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.75. That is $0.25 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.