Pizza in Riverhead

6 restaurants in Riverhead list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Cucina 25 at $10.50, listed as Gluten Free Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.50, and the dearest we found is $19.14 at Rocco's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $8.64 apart, which is 82% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Riverhead is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 380 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Hampton Bays, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Riverhead? Cucina 25, at $10.50 on 12 W Main St. The same dish reaches $19.14 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.64.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.50 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Riverhead that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Hampton Bays, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $4.49 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.