Spaghetti in San Fernando

3 restaurants in San Fernando list spaghetti on their menus. The cheapest is Caruso's Italian Kitchen at $7.65. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $23.00 at The Pizza Cookery, so the two ends of the list are $15.35 apart, which is 201% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track spaghetti in 50 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti across United States. The typical price there runs $12.75 at the median, so San Fernando is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 18 of the 50. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.90 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Jacksonville, FL. The nearest area with it is Los Angeles, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti in San Fernando? Caruso's Italian Kitchen, at $7.65 on 13737 Foothill Blvd. The same dish reaches $23.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.35.

What should spaghetti cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in San Fernando that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Los Angeles, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $3.34 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.