Pizza in Sunnyvale

8 restaurants in Sunnyvale list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is The Gurkha Kitchen at $6.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Laughing Monk Brewing, so the two ends of the list are $11.01 apart, which is 158% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1060 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Sunnyvale is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 473 of the 1060. 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 Santa Clara, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Sunnyvale? The Gurkha Kitchen, at $6.99 on 1342 South Mary Avenue. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.01.

What should pizza cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Sunnyvale that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 Santa Clara, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $1.00 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.