Margherita in Salt Lake City

3 restaurants in Salt Lake City list margherita on their menus. The cheapest is The Brickyard Bar at $10.00. The typical price across town is $16.50, and the dearest we found is $16.50 at MOZZ Artisan Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $6.50 apart, which is 65% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track margherita in 2 other areas and compare them all on margherita across United States. The typical price there runs $24.00 at the median, so Salt Lake City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $14.00 at Bar Red in Denver, CO, and the highest best price is $16.95 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Denver, about 379 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.

Where is the cheapest margherita in Salt Lake City? The Brickyard Bar, at $10.00. The same dish reaches $16.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.50.

What should margherita cost here? About $16.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Salt Lake City 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 Denver, about 379 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. 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.