Marsala in Watchung

4 restaurants in Watchung list marsala on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Brothers Scotch Plains at $18.00, listed as Chicken Marsala. The typical price across town is $22.99, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Grano Pizzeria & Italian Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 39% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track marsala in 402 other areas and compare them all on marsala across United States. The typical price there runs $21.95 at the median, so Watchung is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 141 of the 402. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Italian Corner Deli by Massimo in Trumbull, CT, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Westfield, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $19.00.

Where is the cheapest marsala in Watchung? Pizza Brothers Scotch Plains, at $18.00 on 1742 E 2nd St. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should marsala cost here? About $22.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Watchung that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Westfield, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $19.00. That is $1.00 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.