Lasagna in Piscataway

7 restaurants in Piscataway list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Stelton Pizza at $12.17. The typical price across town is $18.76, and the dearest we found is $19.99 at Panatieri's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $7.82 apart, which is 64% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Piscataway is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 186 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is South Plainfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $14.75.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Piscataway? Stelton Pizza, at $12.17 on 1315 Stelton Rd. The same dish reaches $19.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.82.

What should lasagna cost here? About $18.76 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Piscataway that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 South Plainfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $14.75. That is $2.58 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.