Spaghetti in Rockford

6 restaurants in Rockford list spaghetti on their menus. The cheapest is Vincenzo's Pizza at $8.35. The typical price across town is $12.60, and the dearest we found is $13.95 at John’s Restaurant and Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $5.60 apart, which is 67% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track spaghetti in 50 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti across United States. The typical price there runs $12.90 at the median, so Rockford is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 26 of the 50. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.90 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Jacksonville, FL. The nearest area with it is Palatine, about 54 mi away, where the best price is $8.75.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti in Rockford? Vincenzo's Pizza, at $8.35 on 1513 Charles Street. The same dish reaches $13.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.60.

What should spaghetti cost here? About $12.60 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 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 Palatine, about 54 mi away, where the best price is $8.75. That is $0.40 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.