Pastrami Sandwich in Saugus

4 restaurants in Saugus list pastrami sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Giovanni's Roast Beef & Pizza at $6.45. The typical price across town is $10.50, and the dearest we found is $12.49 at Pamino's, so the two ends of the list are $6.04 apart, which is 94% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track pastrami sandwich in 8 other areas and compare them all on pastrami sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $14.00 at the median, so Saugus is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 7 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.99 at Angelina's Pizza & Subs in Lowell, MA, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Glendale, CA. The nearest area with it is Salem, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest pastrami sandwich in Saugus? Giovanni's Roast Beef & Pizza, at $6.45 on 194 Broadway. The same dish reaches $12.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.04.

What should pastrami sandwich cost here? About $10.50 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Saugus that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Salem, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $1.55 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.