Cheesesteak Wrap in Philadelphia

62 restaurants in Philadelphia list cheesesteak wrap on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Pizza Time at $7.95. The typical price across town is $13.25, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $14.15 at Parmello Pizza & Steak, so the two ends of the list are $6.20 apart, which is 78% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 24 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 16 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheesesteak wrap in 44 other areas and compare them all on cheesesteak wrap 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 17 of the 44. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.25 at Via Roma Pizza in Harrisburg, PA, and the highest best price is $13.75 in Hammonton, NJ. The nearest area with it is Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.95.

Where is the cheapest cheesesteak wrap in Philadelphia? Pizza Time, at $7.95 on 7100 Edmund St. The same dish reaches $14.15 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.20.

What should cheesesteak wrap cost here? About $13.25 is the typical price across the 62 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 24 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 $10.95. That is $3.00 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.