Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich in San Diego

8 restaurants in San Diego list philly cheesesteak sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Giant Pizza King at $9.99. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Pizza On 5th, so the two ends of the list are $10.01 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track philly cheesesteak sandwich in 2 other areas and compare them all on philly cheesesteak sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $13.99 at the median, so San Diego is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.50 at New York Fried Chicken & Pizza - Halal in Newark, NJ, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Santee, CA. The nearest area with it is Santee, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest philly cheesesteak sandwich in San Diego? Giant Pizza King, at $9.99 on 1460 S 43rd St. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.01.

What should philly cheesesteak sandwich cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in San Diego that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 $12.00. That is $2.01 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.