Garlic Knots in Springfield

13 restaurants in Springfield list garlic knots on their menus. The cheapest is El Sazon Criollo at $4.25. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $13.99 at Pizza Choice, so the two ends of the list are $9.74 apart, which is 229% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic knots in 174 other areas and compare them all on garlic knots across United States. The typical price there runs $6.95 at the median, so Springfield is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 174. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fratelli's Pizza & Pasta in Clifton, NJ, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Torrington, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $7.95.

Where is the cheapest garlic knots in Springfield? El Sazon Criollo, at $4.25 on 2550 Main St. The same dish reaches $13.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.74.

What should garlic knots cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Springfield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Torrington, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $7.95. That is $3.70 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.