Pizza in Sacramento

30 restaurants in Sacramento list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Mountain Mike's Pizza at $6.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $26.00 at Falafel Corner, so the two ends of the list are $19.01 apart, which is 272% more for the same dish. Of the 30 kitchens listed, 10 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 11 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Sacramento is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 471 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Rancho Cordova, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Sacramento? Mountain Mike's Pizza, at $6.99 on 1319 Fulton Ave. The same dish reaches $26.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $19.01.

What should pizza cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 30 kitchens in Sacramento that list it. Of the ones listed above, 10 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 Rancho Cordova, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $2.00 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.