Spaghetti Marinara in Tallahassee

4 restaurants in Tallahassee list spaghetti marinara on their menus. The cheapest is Piesanos at $6.99. The typical price across town is $16.15, and the dearest we found is $16.90 at Milano Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.91 apart, which is 142% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track spaghetti marinara in 7 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti marinara across United States. The typical price there runs $13.99 at the median, so Tallahassee is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.00 at San Remo Pizza in Ridgewood, NY, and the highest best price is $11.99 in Los Angeles, CA. The nearest area with it is Raleigh, about 491 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti marinara in Tallahassee? Piesanos, at $6.99 on 101 Blair Stone Road. The same dish reaches $16.90 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.91.

What should spaghetti marinara cost here? About $16.15 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Tallahassee that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Raleigh, about 491 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. 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.