Parmigiana in Tamaqua

3 restaurants in Tamaqua list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Stadium Hill Cafe at $10.50, listed as Chicken Parmesan. The typical price across town is $18.45, and the dearest we found is $18.70 at Basile Italian Delight Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $8.20 apart, which is 78% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Tamaqua is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 369 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Hazleton, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Tamaqua? Stadium Hill Cafe, at $10.50 on 417 W Spruce St. The same dish reaches $18.70 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.20.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $18.45 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Tamaqua that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Hazleton, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $5.49 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.