Pizza in Sarasota

12 restaurants in Sarasota list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Donatos Pizza at $6.75, listed as Pepperoni Pizza. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest we found is $22.95 at Venezia Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $16.20 apart, which is 240% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Sarasota is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 606 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Bradenton, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Sarasota? Donatos Pizza, at $6.75 on 5410 Fruitville Rd. The same dish reaches $22.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.20.

What should pizza cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Sarasota that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Bradenton, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $1.25 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.