Pizza in Springfield

3 restaurants in Springfield list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Neighborhood Pizza Cafe at $7.99, listed as Build Your Own Pizza. The typical price across town is $9.20, and the dearest we found is $13.49 at Bambinos Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $5.50 apart, which is 69% 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 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 Springfield is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1047 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 Overland Park, about 144 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Springfield? Neighborhood Pizza Cafe, at $7.99 on 3550 N Glenstone Ave. The same dish reaches $13.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.50.

What should pizza cost here? About $9.20 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 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 Overland Park, about 144 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $1.01 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.