Baked Ziti in South Plainfield

6 restaurants in South Plainfield list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Bruno's Pizza Factory at $8.99. The typical price across town is $17.50, and the dearest we found is $19.95 at Rodolfo's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $10.96 apart, which is 122% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 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 baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so South Plainfield is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 110 of the 459. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Piscataway, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.95.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in South Plainfield? Bruno's Pizza Factory, at $8.99 on 1713 Park Ave. The same dish reaches $19.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.96.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $17.50 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in South Plainfield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.95. That is $1.96 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.