Garlic Bread in Seattle

17 restaurants in Seattle list garlic bread on their menus. The cheapest is G.H. Pasta & Pizza at $4.00. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $20.80 at Johnny Mo's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $16.80 apart, which is 420% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic bread in 315 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across United States. The typical price there runs $6.25 at the median, so Seattle is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 11 of the 315. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fortunato Brothers Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Manchester, NH. The nearest area with it is Portland, about 145 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in Seattle? G.H. Pasta & Pizza, at $4.00 on 6727 Greenwood Avenue North. The same dish reaches $20.80 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.80.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Seattle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Portland, about 145 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. That is $0.50 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.