Calzone in Reading

17 restaurants in Reading list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Giovanna's Pizza at $7.90, listed as Cheese Calzone. The typical price across town is $11.46, and the dearest we found is $17.53 at Sophia's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $9.63 apart, which is 122% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Reading is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 570 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Boyertown, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $12.25.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Reading? Giovanna's Pizza, at $7.90 on 5468 Perkiomen Ave. The same dish reaches $17.53 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.63.

What should calzone cost here? About $11.46 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Reading that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 Boyertown, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $12.25. That is $4.35 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.