Parmigiana Sandwich in West Chicago

3 restaurants in West Chicago list parmigiana sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Papa Saverio's Pizzeria at $7.99, listed as Chicken Parmigiana Sandwich. The typical price across town is $12.29, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at The Slice Spot, so the two ends of the list are $7.01 apart, which is 88% 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 parmigiana sandwich in 720 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $12.25 at the median, so West Chicago is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 353 of the 720. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Westie's Pizzeria in Utica, NY, and the highest best price is $14.98 in Moorestown-Lenola, NJ. The nearest area with it is Carol Stream, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.25.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana sandwich in West Chicago? Papa Saverio's Pizzeria, at $7.99 on 256 County Farm Rd. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.01.

What should parmigiana sandwich cost here? About $12.29 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in West Chicago 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 Carol Stream, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.25. That is $1.26 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.