Pizza in Saint Petersburg

10 restaurants in Saint Petersburg list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Cicis Pizza at $5.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.49, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at BellaBrava, so the two ends of the list are $10.00 apart, which is 167% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Saint Petersburg is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 392 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 Pinellas Park, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Saint Petersburg? Cicis Pizza, at $5.99 on 4743 66th St N. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.00.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.49 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Saint Petersburg that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 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 Pinellas Park, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $4.00 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.