Pizza in Phoenix

34 restaurants in Phoenix list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Celas's Pizza at $5.99, listed as Create Your Own Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.50, and the dearest we found is $33.79 at Corleone's Philly Steaks & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $27.80 apart, which is 464% more for the same dish. Of the 34 kitchens listed, 13 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 13 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Phoenix is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 380 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Glendale, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Phoenix? Celas's Pizza, at $5.99 on 9419 N Cave Creek Rd. The same dish reaches $33.79 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $27.80.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.50 is the typical price across the 34 kitchens in Phoenix that list it. Of the ones listed above, 13 are more than a dollar below that and 13 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 Glendale, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is the same as 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.