Mozzarella Sticks in Raleigh

11 restaurants in Raleigh list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is NY Brooklyn Original Slices at $5.99. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $12.95 at Mikey's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $6.96 apart, which is 116% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.95 at the median, so Raleigh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 459 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Cary, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $6.95.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Raleigh? NY Brooklyn Original Slices, at $5.99 on 4005 Wake Forest Rd. The same dish reaches $12.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.96.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Raleigh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Cary, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $6.95. That is $0.96 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.