3 restaurants in South Plainfield list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Tony's Pizza & Restaurant at $14.95. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $19.00 at Villa Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.05 apart, which is 27% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.
We track stuffed shells in 250 other areas and compare them all on stuffed shells across United States. The typical price there runs $16.45 at the median, so South Plainfield is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 97 of the 250. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Mr P Pizza & Pasta in North Wales, PA, and the highest best price is $20.10 in West Springfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Piscataway, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $15.50.
Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in South Plainfield? Tony's Pizza & Restaurant, at $14.95 on 716 Oak Tree Ave. The same dish reaches $19.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.05.
What should stuffed shells cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in South Plainfield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Piscataway, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $15.50. That is $0.55 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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Plainfield, NJ this page |
$14.95 | $16.95 | 3 |
| Piscataway, NJ
Otto's Pizza & Pasta · about 2 mi away |
$15.50 | $16.80 | 4 |
| Plainfield, NJ
Ferraro's Pizza · about 3 mi away |
$12.00 | $14.95 | 3 |
| Edison, NJ
Menlo Pizzeria · about 4 mi away |
$14.25 | $15.95 | 7 |
| North Plainfield, NJ
San Remo Pizza & Restaurant · about 4 mi away |
$10.95 | $15.95 | 4 |
| Warren, NJ
Antonio's Restaurant & Pizzeria · about 5 mi away |
$13.00 | $17.95 | 4 |
| Fords, NJ
Angelo's Pizza · about 6 mi away |
$11.95 | $16.95 | 4 |
| Somerset, NJ
Atlixco Pizza Palace · about 6 mi away |
$11.50 | $16.95 | 5 |
| Avenel, NJ
Taste of Italy · about 7 mi away |
$12.45 | $13.50 | 3 |
| Rahway, NJ
Tony's Pizza Cafe · about 7 mi away |
$10.79 | $13.95 | 4 |
| North Brunswick, NJ
Leone's Trattoria · about 9 mi away |
$12.95 | $18.99 | 4 |
| Sayreville, NJ
La Rosetta Cafe · about 9 mi away |
$12.50 | $14.95 | 4 |
| Linden, NJ
Pasquale's Pizzeria IV · about 9 mi away |
$10.00 | $13.95 | 6 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in South Plainfield.