Shrimp Scampi in Poughkeepsie

9 restaurants in Poughkeepsie list shrimp scampi on their menus. The cheapest is Dimoran Pizza & Deli at $14.00. The typical price across town is $24.20, and the dearest we found is $30.60 at Giacomo's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $16.60 apart, which is 119% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp scampi in 272 other areas and compare them all on shrimp scampi across United States. The typical price there runs $23.00 at the median, so Poughkeepsie is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 84 of the 272. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Via Italian Table in Worcester, MA, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Wappingers Falls, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $22.95.

Where is the cheapest shrimp scampi in Poughkeepsie? Dimoran Pizza & Deli, at $14.00 on 51 Burnett Blvd. The same dish reaches $30.60 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.60.

What should shrimp scampi cost here? About $24.20 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Poughkeepsie that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Wappingers Falls, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $22.95. That is $8.95 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.