Lasagna in Springfield

16 restaurants in Springfield list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is El Sazon Criollo at $14.95. The typical price across town is $19.60, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Leone's Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $7.05 apart, which is 47% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Springfield is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 119 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Torrington, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $14.95.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Springfield? El Sazon Criollo, at $14.95 on 2550 Main St. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.05.

What should lasagna cost here? About $19.60 is the typical price across the 16 kitchens in Springfield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 $14.95. That is the same as 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.