Shrimp Scampi in Pen Argyl

4 restaurants in Pen Argyl list shrimp scampi on their menus. The cheapest is Giordano's Pizza at $17.99. The typical price across town is $20.99, and the dearest we found is $22.99 at 512 Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 28% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 shrimp scampi in 272 other areas and compare them all on shrimp scampi across United States. The typical price there runs $23.00 at the median, so Pen Argyl is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 211 of the 272. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Via Italian Table in Worcester, MA, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Nazareth, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $20.50.

Where is the cheapest shrimp scampi in Pen Argyl? Giordano's Pizza, at $17.99 on 13 W Pennsylvania Ave. The same dish reaches $22.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should shrimp scampi cost here? About $20.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Pen Argyl that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Nazareth, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $20.50. That is $2.51 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.