Italian Hoagie in Philadelphia

94 restaurants in Philadelphia list italian hoagie on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Tony's Pizzeria at $6.95. The typical price across town is $12.05, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $11.49 at Wadsworth Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $4.54 apart, which is 65% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 33 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track italian hoagie in 83 other areas and compare them all on italian hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $12.00 at the median, so Philadelphia is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 37 of the 83. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.75 at Fox's Pizza Den in Pittsburgh, PA, and the highest best price is $13.49 in Deptford, NJ. The nearest area with it is Camden, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.30.

Where is the cheapest italian hoagie in Philadelphia? Tony's Pizzeria, at $6.95 on 3128 Belgrade St. The same dish reaches $11.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.54.

What should italian hoagie cost here? About $12.05 is the typical price across the 94 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 33 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 Camden, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.30. That is $0.35 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.