Calzone in San Francisco

34 restaurants in San Francisco list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Monza Pizzeria at $9.00, listed as Plain Calzone. The typical price across town is $21.50, and the dearest we found is $31.95 at The Sausage Factory, so the two ends of the list are $22.95 apart, which is 255% more for the same dish. Of the 34 kitchens listed, 15 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 11 charge 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 San Francisco is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 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 Berkeley, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $13.49.

Where is the cheapest calzone in San Francisco? Monza Pizzeria, at $9.00 on 1934 Ocean Ave. The same dish reaches $31.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $22.95.

What should calzone cost here? About $21.50 is the typical price across the 34 kitchens in San Francisco that list it. Of the ones listed above, 15 are more than a dollar below that and 11 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 Berkeley, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $13.49. That is $4.49 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.