Piccata in Somerset

6 restaurants in Somerset list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Somerset Pizza & Restaurant at $13.20, listed as Chicken Piccata Lunch. The typical price across town is $21.50, and the dearest we found is $24.20 at Cafe Alfredo's, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 83% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track piccata in 154 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $22.00 at the median, so Somerset is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 85 of the 154. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Piscataway, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $20.95.

Where is the cheapest piccata in Somerset? Somerset Pizza & Restaurant, at $13.20 on 147 Pierce St. The same dish reaches $24.20 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should piccata cost here? About $21.50 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Somerset 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 Piscataway, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $20.95. That is $7.75 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.