Shrimp Scampi in Toms River

14 restaurants in Toms River list shrimp scampi on their menus. The cheapest is LGS Pizza Toms River at $14.35. The typical price across town is $21.95, and the dearest we found is $25.95 at Mangia Brick Oven Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $11.60 apart, which is 81% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp scampi in 272 other areas and compare them all on shrimp scampi across United States. The typical price there runs $23.00 at the median, so Toms River is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 183 of the 272. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Via Italian Table in Worcester, MA, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Bayville, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $20.85.

Where is the cheapest shrimp scampi in Toms River? LGS Pizza Toms River, at $14.35 on 1071 Route 37 West. The same dish reaches $25.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.60.

What should shrimp scampi cost here? About $21.95 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Toms River that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 $20.85. That is $6.50 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.