Pepperoni in South Boston

3 restaurants in South Boston list pepperoni on their menus. The cheapest is Capo at $16.00. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Petula’s, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 25% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 charge 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 pepperoni in 1 other area and compare them all on pepperoni across United States. The typical price there runs $16.25 at the median, so South Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $14.00 at Bistro 23 in Portland, OR. The nearest area with it is Portland, about 2533 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.

Where is the cheapest pepperoni in South Boston? Capo, at $16.00 on 443 West Broadway. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should pepperoni cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in South Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 are 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 Portland, about 2533 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. That is $2.00 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.