Lasagna in West Islip

4 restaurants in West Islip list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Bella Cucina Pizzeria Restaurant at $14.62, listed as Homemade Lasagna. The typical price across town is $15.95, and the dearest we found is $21.99 at Our Little Italy Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $7.37 apart, which is 50% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so West Islip is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 464 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is West Babylon, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $15.65.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in West Islip? Bella Cucina Pizzeria Restaurant, at $14.62 on 424 Montauk Hwy. The same dish reaches $21.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.37.

What should lasagna cost here? About $15.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in West Islip 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 West Babylon, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $15.65. That is $1.03 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.