Calzone in Salem

8 restaurants in Salem list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is PZA Grille & Bar at $13.95, listed as Cheese Calzone. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $19.94 at Essex's NY Pizza & Deli, so the two ends of the list are $5.99 apart, which is 43% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 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 calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Salem is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 64 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Peabody, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.50.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Salem? PZA Grille & Bar, at $13.95 on 331 Lafayette St. The same dish reaches $19.94 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.99.

What should calzone cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Salem that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 Peabody, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.50. That is $0.55 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.