Gyro in Pittsburgh

18 restaurants in Pittsburgh list gyro on their menus. The cheapest is Fox's Pizza Den at $4.95. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $15.24 at Ege Mediterranean, so the two ends of the list are $10.29 apart, which is 208% more for the same dish. Of the 18 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track gyro in 44 other areas and compare them all on gyro across United States. The typical price there runs $13.90 at the median, so Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 39 of the 44. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.99 at Mark's Zeke's Pizza in Johnstown, PA, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Johnstown, about 58 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest gyro in Pittsburgh? Fox's Pizza Den, at $4.95 on 1500 Radford Rd. The same dish reaches $15.24 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.29.

What should gyro cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 18 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Johnstown, about 58 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $2.04 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.