Baked Ziti in Rockaway

3 restaurants in Rockaway list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Tony's Famous Pizzeria at $9.50, listed as Baked Ziti Lunch. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Pizza 46, so the two ends of the list are $8.49 apart, which is 89% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Rockaway is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 398 of the 459. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Franklin, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $12.95.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Rockaway? Tony's Famous Pizzeria, at $9.50 on 533 Green Pond Rd. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.49.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Rockaway that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 $12.95. That is $3.45 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.