Meatball Hoagie in Pittsburgh

23 restaurants in Pittsburgh list meatball hoagie on their menus. The cheapest is Fox's Pizza Den at $5.75. The typical price across town is $9.50, and the dearest we found is $14.99 at Pizza Parma Downtown, so the two ends of the list are $9.24 apart, which is 161% more for the same dish. Of the 23 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 10 charge more than a dollar over.

We track meatball hoagie in 3 other areas and compare them all on meatball hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $7.99 at the median, so Pittsburgh is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Santo's Pizza in Johnstown, PA, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Carnegie, PA. The nearest area with it is Carnegie, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest meatball hoagie in Pittsburgh? Fox's Pizza Den, at $5.75 on 1500 Radford Rd. The same dish reaches $14.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.24.

What should meatball hoagie cost here? About $9.50 is the typical price across the 23 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 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 $7.99. That is $2.24 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.