Mozzarella Sticks in Seattle

13 restaurants in Seattle list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Magnolia Pizza & Pasta at $8.95. The typical price across town is $11.25, and the dearest we found is $16.48 at Soprano's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $7.53 apart, which is 84% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 6 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 mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.90 at the median, so Seattle is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 93 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Edmonds, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $9.74.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Seattle? Magnolia Pizza & Pasta, at $8.95 on 2120 West Emerson Pl. The same dish reaches $16.48 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.53.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $11.25 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Seattle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 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 Edmonds, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $9.74. That is $0.79 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.