Stuffed Shells in Rockaway

3 restaurants in Rockaway list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Frank's Pizza at $13.00, listed as Stuffed Shells Lunch. The typical price across town is $17.99, and the dearest we found is $20.90 at Pizza Rustica, so the two ends of the list are $7.90 apart, which is 61% 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 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 Rockaway is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 46 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 Dover, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $13.60.

Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Rockaway? Frank's Pizza, at $13.00 on 212 Enterprise Dr. The same dish reaches $20.90 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.90.

What should stuffed shells cost here? About $17.99 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 Dover, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $13.60. That is $0.60 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.