Meatball Sandwich in San Jose

5 restaurants in San Jose list meatball sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Checkers Pizza at $8.99. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $16.95 at Rosie's New York Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.96 apart, which is 89% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track meatball sandwich in 34 other areas and compare them all on meatball sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $12.50 at the median, so San Jose is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 29 of the 34. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Guerrero's Pizza in Chicago, IL, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Houston, TX. The nearest area with it is San Francisco, about 44 mi away, where the best price is $9.95.

Where is the cheapest meatball sandwich in San Jose? Checkers Pizza, at $8.99 on 4157 Hamilton Ave. The same dish reaches $16.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.96.

What should meatball sandwich cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in San Jose that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 are 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 San Francisco, about 44 mi away, where the best price is $9.95. That is $0.96 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.