Italian Hoagie in Springfield

4 restaurants in Springfield list italian hoagie on their menus. The cheapest is Sciarrino's Pizzeria at $8.45. The typical price across town is $12.19, and the dearest we found is $13.31 at Toscana Gourmet Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.86 apart, which is 58% 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 italian hoagie in 83 other areas and compare them all on italian hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $12.00 at the median, so Springfield is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 35 of the 83. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.75 at Fox's Pizza Den in Pittsburgh, PA, and the highest best price is $13.49 in Deptford, NJ. The nearest area with it is Drexel Hill, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.95.

Where is the cheapest italian hoagie in Springfield? Sciarrino's Pizzeria, at $8.45 on 19 N Brookside Rd. The same dish reaches $13.31 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.86.

What should italian hoagie cost here? About $12.19 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Springfield 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 Drexel Hill, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.95. That is $2.50 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.