Parmigiana in Poughkeepsie

13 restaurants in Poughkeepsie list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Mel's Pizza Pasta & More at $9.95, listed as Eggplant parmigiana. The typical price across town is $18.70, and the dearest we found is $25.15 at Giacomo's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $15.20 apart, which is 153% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Poughkeepsie is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 345 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Highland, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $13.51.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Poughkeepsie? Mel's Pizza Pasta & More, at $9.95 on 1820 New Hackensack Rd. The same dish reaches $25.15 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.20.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $18.70 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Poughkeepsie that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 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 Highland, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $13.51. That is $3.56 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.