Garlic Bread in Springfield

3 restaurants in Springfield list garlic bread on their menus. The cheapest is Rocco's Pizza South Springfield at $4.60. The typical price across town is $6.75, and the dearest we found is $7.29 at Bambinos Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $2.69 apart, which is 58% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic bread in 315 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across United States. The typical price there runs $6.25 at the median, so Springfield is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 121 of the 315. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fortunato Brothers Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Manchester, NH. The nearest area with it is Aurora, about 310 mi away, where the best price is $5.75.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in Springfield? Rocco's Pizza South Springfield, at $4.60 on 4315 S National Ave. The same dish reaches $7.29 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.69.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $6.75 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Springfield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Aurora, about 310 mi away, where the best price is $5.75. That is $1.15 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.