Ham And Cheese Hoagie in Philadelphia

60 restaurants in Philadelphia list ham and cheese hoagie on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Don Giovanni's II at $7.20, listed as Ham & Cheese Hoagie. The typical price across town is $11.25, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $12.45 at Luigi's Pizza Fresca, so the two ends of the list are $5.25 apart, which is 73% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 21 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 18 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track ham and cheese hoagie in 38 other areas and compare them all on ham and cheese hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $12.00 at the median, so Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 28 of the 38. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.75 at Fox's Pizza Den in Pittsburgh, PA, and the highest best price is $12.36 in Williamstown, NJ. The nearest area with it is Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest ham and cheese hoagie in Philadelphia? Don Giovanni's II, at $7.20 on 2900 Levick St. The same dish reaches $12.45 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.25.

What should ham and cheese hoagie cost here? About $11.25 is the typical price across the 60 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 21 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 Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $1.30 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.