Pizza in Waltham

14 restaurants in Waltham list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Tara Restaurant Pizza & More at $7.50, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $25.29 at B & F Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $17.79 apart, which is 237% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Waltham is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 418 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Watertown, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.50.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Waltham? Tara Restaurant Pizza & More, at $7.50 on 288 Moody Street. The same dish reaches $25.29 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $17.79.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Waltham 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 Watertown, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.50. 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.