Mozzarella Sticks in Philadelphia

96 restaurants in Philadelphia list mozzarella sticks on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Pizza Roma at $5.35. The typical price across town is $8.25, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $7.80 at El Greco Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $2.45 apart, which is 46% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 28 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.95 at the median, so Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 605 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Camden, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $5.95.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Philadelphia? Pizza Roma, at $5.35 on 7300 Bustleton Ave. The same dish reaches $7.80 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.45.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $8.25 is the typical price across the 96 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 28 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 $5.95. That is $0.60 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.