Pizza in Reading

24 restaurants in Reading list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Pizzariffic at $6.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $11.43, and the dearest we found is $17.69 at Esposito's Restaurant & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $10.70 apart, which is 153% more for the same dish. Of the 24 kitchens listed, 10 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge 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 Reading is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 936 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 Douglassville, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Reading? Pizzariffic, at $6.99 on 3201 Pottsville Pike. The same dish reaches $17.69 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.70.

What should pizza cost here? About $11.43 is the typical price across the 24 kitchens in Reading that list it. Of the ones listed above, 10 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 Douglassville, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $4.00 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.