Spaghetti in Phoenix

5 restaurants in Phoenix list spaghetti on their menus. The cheapest is My Slice of the Pie Pizzeria Arcadia at $6.49. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $14.99 at Amelio's Pizza & Wings, so the two ends of the list are $8.50 apart, which is 131% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track spaghetti in 50 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti across United States. The typical price there runs $12.90 at the median, so Phoenix is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 49 of the 50. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.90 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Jacksonville, FL. The nearest area with it is El Cajon, about 287 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti in Phoenix? My Slice of the Pie Pizzeria Arcadia, at $6.49 on 3724 E Indian School Rd. The same dish reaches $14.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.50.

What should spaghetti cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Phoenix that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 El Cajon, about 287 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $2.50 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.