Cheesesteak Hoagie in Wayne

3 restaurants in Wayne list cheesesteak hoagie on their menus. The cheapest is HG Coal Fired Pizza at $12.50. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Vic & Dean's Pizzeria Grill, so the two ends of the list are $5.50 apart, which is 44% 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 cheesesteak hoagie in 39 other areas and compare them all on cheesesteak hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $13.20 at the median, so Wayne is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 39. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.95 at Tony's Pizzeria in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $13.00 in Glenolden, PA. The nearest area with it is Conshohocken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $12.95.

Where is the cheapest cheesesteak hoagie in Wayne? HG Coal Fired Pizza, at $12.50 on 500 Chesterbrook Blvd. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.50.

What should cheesesteak hoagie cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Wayne 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 Conshohocken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $12.95. That is $0.45 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.