Mozzarella Sticks in Reading

19 restaurants in Reading list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Bruno's Pizza Restaurant at $6.00. The typical price across town is $7.54, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Nino's Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $3.99 apart, which is 66% more for the same dish. Of the 19 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 14 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 Reading is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 680 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 Kutztown, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $6.75.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Reading? Bruno's Pizza Restaurant, at $6.00 on 4340 Perkiomen Ave. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.99.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $7.54 is the typical price across the 19 kitchens in Reading 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 Kutztown, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $6.75. That is $0.75 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.