Pizza in Washington

45 restaurants in Washington list pizza on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is California Grill & Pizza at $8.99, listed as White Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $19.00 at Lupo Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $10.01 apart, which is 111% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 19 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 13 sit within a dollar of it and 8 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 Washington is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 309 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 Silver Spring, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Washington? California Grill & Pizza, at $8.99 on 6801 Douglas Legum Drive. The same dish reaches $19.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.01.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 45 kitchens in Washington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 19 are more than a dollar below that and 8 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 Silver Spring, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $6.00 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.