Corned Beef Sandwich in Philadelphia

69 restaurants in Philadelphia list corned beef sandwich on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Don Giovanni's II at $6.05. The typical price across town is $9.75, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $9.95 at Big Daddy Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.90 apart, which is 64% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 23 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 17 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track corned beef sandwich in 1 other area and compare them all on corned beef sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $10.95 at the median, so Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.00 at AC Island Pizza in Atlantic City, NJ. The nearest area with it is Atlantic City, about 57 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest corned beef sandwich in Philadelphia? Don Giovanni's II, at $6.05 on 2900 Levick St. The same dish reaches $9.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.90.

What should corned beef sandwich cost here? About $9.75 is the typical price across the 69 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 23 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 Atlantic City, about 57 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $2.95 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.