Piccata in Toms River

9 restaurants in Toms River list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Enzo's Caffe Italia at $16.00, listed as Chicken Piccata. The typical price across town is $23.00, and the dearest we found is $24.99 at Capone's Gourmet Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $8.99 apart, which is 56% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track piccata in 154 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $21.99 at the median, so Toms River is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 57 of the 154. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Brick, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $18.99.

Where is the cheapest piccata in Toms River? Enzo's Caffe Italia, at $16.00 on 2414 NJ 37. The same dish reaches $24.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.99.

What should piccata cost here? About $23.00 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Toms River that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Brick, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $18.99. That is $2.99 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.