Baked Ziti in Tampa

13 restaurants in Tampa list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Tiani's Pizza at $9.95. The typical price across town is $14.49, and the dearest we found is $19.99 at Mangia Bene Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $10.04 apart, which is 101% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Tampa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 365 of the 459. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Clearwater, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $11.00.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Tampa? Tiani's Pizza, at $9.95 on 5835 Memorial Hwy. The same dish reaches $19.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.04.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $14.49 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Tampa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Clearwater, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $11.00. That is $1.05 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.