Stuffed Shells in Saint Petersburg

4 restaurants in Saint Petersburg list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Central Pizza & Subs at $11.95. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at Manhattan City Pizza - St Petersburg, so the two ends of the list are $3.00 apart, which is 25% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge 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 Saint Petersburg is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 213 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 Tampa, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Saint Petersburg? Central Pizza & Subs, at $11.95 on 6405 Central Ave N. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.00.

What should stuffed shells cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Saint Petersburg 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 Tampa, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $0.04 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.