Calzone in Philadelphia

125 restaurants in Philadelphia list calzone on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Golden Crust Pizza III at $8.00, listed as Plain Calzone. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $11.70 at Fingers & Wings Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.70 apart, which is 46% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 40 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 0 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Philadelphia is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 342 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $9.95.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Philadelphia? Golden Crust Pizza III, at $8.00 on 3732 Midvale Ave. The same dish reaches $11.70 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.70.

What should calzone cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 125 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 40 are 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 Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $9.95. That is $1.95 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.