Grilled Cheese Sandwich in Saugus

4 restaurants in Saugus list grilled cheese sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Pamino's at $4.75. The typical price across town is $7.50, and the dearest we found is $7.99 at Peter's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.24 apart, which is 68% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track grilled cheese sandwich in 20 other areas and compare them all on grilled cheese sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Saugus is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 11 of the 20. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Papa Nick's Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Boothwyn, PA. The nearest area with it is Lynnfield, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $5.19.

Where is the cheapest grilled cheese sandwich in Saugus? Pamino's, at $4.75 on 566 Walnut St. The same dish reaches $7.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.24.

What should grilled cheese sandwich cost here? About $7.50 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Saugus that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Lynnfield, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $5.19. That is $0.44 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.