Piccata in South Plainfield

4 restaurants in South Plainfield list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Tony's Pizza & Restaurant at $17.95, listed as Chicken Piccata. The typical price across town is $22.00, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Luigi's New York Style Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.05 apart, which is 23% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 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 $21.99 at the median, so South Plainfield is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 75 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 2 mi away, where the best price is $20.95.

Where is the cheapest piccata in South Plainfield? Tony's Pizza & Restaurant, at $17.95 on 716 Oak Tree Ave. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.05.

What should piccata cost here? About $22.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in South Plainfield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 2 mi away, where the best price is $20.95. That is $3.00 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.