Tuna Hoagie in Springfield

3 restaurants in Springfield list tuna hoagie on their menus. The cheapest is Cocco's Pizza at $8.49. The typical price across town is $13.31, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at Dairy Cottage, so the two ends of the list are $6.46 apart, which is 76% 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 tuna hoagie in 31 other areas and compare them all on tuna hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $11.94 at the median, so Springfield is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 31. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.95 at Original Dominick's Pizzeria & Italian Grill in Trenton, NJ, and the highest best price is $12.99 in Perkasie, PA. The nearest area with it is Wayne, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest tuna hoagie in Springfield? Cocco's Pizza, at $8.49 on 35 E Woodland Ave. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.46.

What should tuna hoagie cost here? About $13.31 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 Wayne, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $1.51 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.