Tuna Hoagie in Philadelphia

61 restaurants in Philadelphia list tuna 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 $12.00, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $13.20 at Bryn Mawr Pizza II, so the two ends of the list are $6.25 apart, which is 90% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 23 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 16 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track tuna hoagie in 31 other areas and compare them all on tuna hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $11.94 at the median, so Philadelphia is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 10 of the 31. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.95 at Original Dominick's Pizzeria & Italian Grill in Trenton, NJ, and the highest best price is $12.99 in Perkasie, PA. The nearest area with it is Camden, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.45.

Where is the cheapest tuna hoagie in Philadelphia? Tony's Pizzeria, at $6.95 on 3128 Belgrade St. The same dish reaches $13.20 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.25.

What should tuna hoagie cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 61 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 23 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 Camden, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.45. That is $0.50 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.