Piccata in Stoneham

6 restaurants in Stoneham list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Louis Sub Shoppe at $13.99, listed as Chicken Piccata. The typical price across town is $24.00, and the dearest we found is $45.00 at The Stones Common House & Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $31.01 apart, which is 222% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track piccata in 157 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $21.99 at the median, so Stoneham is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 36 of the 157. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Middletown, about 99 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.

Where is the cheapest piccata in Stoneham? Louis Sub Shoppe, at $13.99 on 125 Main St. The same dish reaches $45.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $31.01.

What should piccata cost here? About $24.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Stoneham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Middletown, about 99 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. That is $0.01 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.