Stuffed Shells in Reading

11 restaurants in Reading list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Amigo's Pizza at $12.47. The typical price across town is $15.50, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Sophia's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $6.52 apart, which is 52% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track stuffed shells in 250 other areas and compare them all on stuffed shells across United States. The typical price there runs $16.45 at the median, so Reading is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 171 of the 250. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Mr P Pizza & Pasta in North Wales, PA, and the highest best price is $20.10 in West Springfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Pottstown, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Reading? Amigo's Pizza, at $12.47 on 2017 Kutztown Rd. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.52.

What should stuffed shells cost here? About $15.50 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Reading that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Pottstown, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $2.52 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.