Parmigiana in Rockaway

5 restaurants in Rockaway list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Tony's Famous Pizzeria at $9.50, listed as Chicken Parm Lunch. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest we found is $24.35 at Pizza Rustica, so the two ends of the list are $14.85 apart, which is 156% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 parmigiana in 732 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Rockaway is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 708 of the 732. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.60 at Savarona Pizzeria & Restaurant in Shirley, NY, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Franklin, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $12.26.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Rockaway? Tony's Famous Pizzeria, at $9.50 on 533 Green Pond Rd. The same dish reaches $24.35 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.85.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Rockaway that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Franklin, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $12.26. That is $2.76 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.