Seafood in Toms River

8 restaurants in Toms River list seafood on their menus. The cheapest is Villaggio Pizza at $20.95, listed as Seafood Combo. The typical price across town is $25.95, and the dearest we found is $28.99 at Capone's Gourmet Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $8.04 apart, which is 38% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track seafood in 7 other areas and compare them all on seafood across United States. The typical price there runs $23.99 at the median, so Toms River is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.00 at Ramos Pizza in New Windsor, NY, and the highest best price is $23.95 in Forked River, NJ. The nearest area with it is Forked River, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $23.95.

Where is the cheapest seafood in Toms River? Villaggio Pizza, at $20.95 on 1889 Hooper Ave. The same dish reaches $28.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.04.

What should seafood cost here? About $25.95 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Toms River that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Forked River, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $23.95. That is $3.00 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.