Calzone in Simi Valley

5 restaurants in Simi Valley list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Big Z Pizza Family Restaurant at $9.01, listed as Build Your Own Calzone. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $24.95 at Palermo Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $15.94 apart, which is 177% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Simi Valley is about average, with a lower typical price than 361 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Santa Susana, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Simi Valley? Big Z Pizza Family Restaurant, at $9.01 on 2428 Stearns Street. The same dish reaches $24.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.94.

What should calzone cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Simi Valley that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Santa Susana, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $1.98 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.