Stromboli in Watchung

3 restaurants in Watchung list stromboli on their menus. The cheapest is Marino's Trattoria at $9.50. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $16.99 at Grano Pizzeria & Italian Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $7.49 apart, which is 79% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 stromboli in 456 other areas and compare them all on stromboli across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Watchung is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 346 of the 456. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Da Vinci Pizzeria in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $18.29 in Cape May, NJ. The nearest area with it is Plainfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $11.50.

Where is the cheapest stromboli in Watchung? Marino's Trattoria, at $9.50 on 475 Watchung Ave. The same dish reaches $16.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.49.

What should stromboli cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Watchung that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Plainfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $11.50. That is $2.00 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.