Pizza in Punta Gorda

5 restaurants in Punta Gorda list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Santa Lucia Pizzeria & Restaurant at $10.50, listed as Regular Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $13.99 at Ryan's Subs & Sports Grill, so the two ends of the list are $3.49 apart, which is 33% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Punta Gorda is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 715 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Port Charlotte, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $13.02.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Punta Gorda? Santa Lucia Pizzeria & Restaurant, at $10.50 on 5240 Duncan Rd. The same dish reaches $13.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.49.

What should pizza cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Punta Gorda that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Port Charlotte, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $13.02. That is $2.52 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.