Calzone in Wellesley

3 restaurants in Wellesley list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Mark's Pizza & Subs at $10.99, listed as Cheese Calzone. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at Cooks Window Italian Pizza & Catering, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 45% 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 calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Wellesley is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 231 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Needham, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Wellesley? Mark's Pizza & Subs, at $10.99 on 12 Washington St. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should calzone cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Wellesley 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 Needham, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. That is $3.01 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.