Calzone in Richmond

18 restaurants in Richmond list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Papa Lou Pizza at $9.95, listed as Cheese Calzone. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest we found is $16.56 at Downtown Capriccio’s Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $6.61 apart, which is 66% more for the same dish. Of the 18 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Richmond is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 342 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Henrico, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Richmond? Papa Lou Pizza, at $9.95 on 5310 Hull Street Rd. The same dish reaches $16.56 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.61.

What should calzone cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 18 kitchens in Richmond that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Henrico, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $0.04 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.