Steak Hoagie in Pittsburgh

19 restaurants in Pittsburgh list steak hoagie on their menus. The cheapest is Ron's Pizza Palace at $7.00. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $14.99 at Pizza Parma Downtown, so the two ends of the list are $7.99 apart, which is 114% more for the same dish. Of the 19 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 8 charge more than a dollar over.

We track steak hoagie in 4 other areas and compare them all on steak hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $11.99 at the median, so Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.99 at Yings Restaurant & Bar in Depew, NY, and the highest best price is $10.50 in Willow Grove, PA. The nearest area with it is Buffalo, about 179 mi away, where the best price is $7.49.

Where is the cheapest steak hoagie in Pittsburgh? Ron's Pizza Palace, at $7.00 on 1535 Lowrie St. The same dish reaches $14.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.99.

What should steak hoagie cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 19 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 Buffalo, about 179 mi away, where the best price is $7.49. That is $0.49 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.