Lasagna in Reading

12 restaurants in Reading list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Russo's Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant at $10.40, listed as Lasagna Lunch. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Nino's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $9.60 apart, which is 92% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 6 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 lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Reading is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 442 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Kutztown, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $15.95.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Reading? Russo's Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant, at $10.40 on 527 Penn St. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.60.

What should lasagna cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Reading that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 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 Kutztown, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $15.95. That is $5.55 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.