Mozzarella Sticks in Waltham

13 restaurants in Waltham list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Lena's Original Pizza & Sub at $6.30. The typical price across town is $10.15, and the dearest we found is $15.35 at Theo's Pizzeria and Grille, so the two ends of the list are $9.05 apart, which is 144% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 5 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 mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.90 at the median, so Waltham is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 226 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Watertown, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.90.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Waltham? Lena's Original Pizza & Sub, at $6.30 on 889 Main St. The same dish reaches $15.35 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.05.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $10.15 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Waltham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 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 Watertown, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.90. That is $2.60 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.