Ham And Cheese Hoagie in Pittsburgh

22 restaurants in Pittsburgh list ham and cheese hoagie on their menus. The cheapest is Fox's Pizza Den at $5.75, listed as Ham & Cheese Hoagie. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $15.55 at Villa Reale Pizzeria & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $9.80 apart, which is 170% more for the same dish. Of the 22 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 8 charge more than a dollar over.

We track ham and cheese hoagie in 38 other areas and compare them all on ham and cheese hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $12.00 at the median, so Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 37 of the 38. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.99 at Pizza Box in Turnersville, NJ, and the highest best price is $12.36 in Williamstown, NJ. The nearest area with it is Coatesville, about 221 mi away, where the best price is $11.70.

Where is the cheapest ham and cheese hoagie in Pittsburgh? Fox's Pizza Den, at $5.75 on 1500 Radford Rd. The same dish reaches $15.55 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.80.

What should ham and cheese hoagie cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 22 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 8 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 Coatesville, about 221 mi away, where the best price is $11.70. That is $5.95 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.