Lasagna in Wheaton

4 restaurants in Wheaton list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Nonno Carm's Pizza & Pasta at $11.00, listed as Homemade Meat Lasagna. The typical price across town is $18.90, and the dearest we found is $24.00 at Ditka's Grill, so the two ends of the list are $13.00 apart, which is 118% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 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 Wheaton is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 184 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 Carol Stream, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $14.25.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Wheaton? Nonno Carm's Pizza & Pasta, at $11.00 on 1022 College Ave. The same dish reaches $24.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.00.

What should lasagna cost here? About $18.90 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Wheaton that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 5 mi away, where the best price is $14.25. That is $3.25 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.