Lasagna in San Mateo

4 restaurants in San Mateo list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is New York Pizza at $18.14, listed as Meat Lasagna. The typical price across town is $21.99, and the dearest we found is $27.03 at North Beach Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.89 apart, which is 49% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so San Mateo is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 31 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is San Bruno, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $18.99.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in San Mateo? New York Pizza, at $18.14 on 219 South B Street. The same dish reaches $27.03 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.89.

What should lasagna cost here? About $21.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in San Mateo that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Bruno, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $18.99. That is $0.85 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.