Pasta And Meatballs in Reading

12 restaurants in Reading list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Ray's Number 1 Pizza at $10.99, listed as Pasta with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $18.63 at Sophia's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $7.64 apart, which is 70% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 4 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 pasta and meatballs in 115 other areas and compare them all on pasta and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so Reading is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 92 of the 115. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Prince of Pizza in Jersey City, NJ, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Boca Raton, FL. The nearest area with it is Lititz, about 24 mi away, where the best price is $13.99.

Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in Reading? Ray's Number 1 Pizza, at $10.99 on 841 Washington St. The same dish reaches $18.63 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.64.

What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Reading that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 Lititz, about 24 mi away, where the best price is $13.99. That is $3.00 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.