Mozzarella Sticks in San Diego

23 restaurants in San Diego list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Dad's Pizza at $5.99. The typical price across town is $11.49, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Pizza On 5th, so the two ends of the list are $14.01 apart, which is 234% more for the same dish. Of the 23 kitchens listed, 11 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 8 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.90 at the median, so San Diego is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 81 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Santee, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in San Diego? Dad's Pizza, at $5.99 on 342 Euclid Ave. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.01.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $11.49 is the typical price across the 23 kitchens in San Diego that list it. Of the ones listed above, 11 are more than a dollar below that and 8 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 Santee, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $3.00 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.