Pizza in Tamaqua

4 restaurants in Tamaqua list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Stadium Hill Cafe at $8.95, listed as Plain Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $11.50, and the dearest we found is $14.45 at La Dolce Casa - DiMaggio's, so the two ends of the list are $5.50 apart, which is 61% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Tamaqua is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 922 of the 1058. 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 Hazleton, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $10.25.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Tamaqua? Stadium Hill Cafe, at $8.95 on 417 W Spruce St. The same dish reaches $14.45 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.50.

What should pizza cost here? About $11.50 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Tamaqua that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Hazleton, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $10.25. That is $1.30 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.