Pizza in Sparta

4 restaurants in Sparta list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Villa Capri II at $8.50, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $18.95 at Angeloni's on Lake Mohawk, so the two ends of the list are $10.45 apart, which is 123% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Sparta is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 810 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Newton, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Sparta? Villa Capri II, at $8.50 on 270 S Sparta Ave. The same dish reaches $18.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.45.

What should pizza cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Sparta that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Newton, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $1.49 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.