Parmigiana in Pittsburgh

30 restaurants in Pittsburgh list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Center Avenue Slice at $7.99, listed as Chicken Parmesan. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $26.99 at Pizza Bellino, so the two ends of the list are $19.00 apart, which is 238% more for the same dish. Of the 30 kitchens listed, 12 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 10 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 481 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Carnegie, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Pittsburgh? Center Avenue Slice, at $7.99 on 332 Center Avenue. The same dish reaches $26.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $19.00.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 30 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 12 are more than a dollar below that and 10 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 Carnegie, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $7.00 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.