Lasagna in Toms River

20 restaurants in Toms River list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Villaggio Pizza at $12.95, listed as Meat Lasagna. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $20.65 at Pondrelli's Pizza & Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $7.70 apart, which is 59% more for the same dish. Of the 20 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Toms River is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 370 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Bayville, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $16.95.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Toms River? Villaggio Pizza, at $12.95 on 1889 Hooper Ave. The same dish reaches $20.65 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.70.

What should lasagna cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 20 kitchens in Toms River that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Bayville, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $16.95. That is $4.00 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.