Mozzarella Sticks in Rockford

6 restaurants in Rockford list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Mr.J's Restaurant & Pizzeria at $5.99. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $9.60 at Vinny's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.61 apart, which is 60% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 701 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.90 at the median, so Rockford is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 461 of the 701. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Carpentersville, about 40 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Rockford? Mr.J's Restaurant & Pizzeria, at $5.99 on 3701 Auburn Street. The same dish reaches $9.60 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.61.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Rockford that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Carpentersville, about 40 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $1.00 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.