Baked Ziti in Pittsburgh

18 restaurants in Pittsburgh list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Fox's Pizza Den at $6.99. The typical price across town is $15.59, and the dearest we found is $20.99 at Pizza Bellino, so the two ends of the list are $14.00 apart, which is 200% 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 baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 280 of the 459. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Martinsburg, about 126 mi away, where the best price is $13.20.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Pittsburgh? Fox's Pizza Den, at $6.99 on 1500 Radford Rd. The same dish reaches $20.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.00.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $15.59 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 Martinsburg, about 126 mi away, where the best price is $13.20. That is $6.21 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.