Cheese Steak in Wildwood

4 restaurants in Wildwood list cheese steak on their menus. The cheapest is Franconi's Pizza at $10.95. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Carini Pizza & Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $6.05 apart, which is 55% 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 cheese steak in 1 other area and compare them all on cheese steak across United States. The typical price there runs $12.50 at the median, so Wildwood is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.50 at Prospero's Pizza in Wilmington, DE. The nearest area with it is Wilmington, about 65 mi away, where the best price is $11.50.

Where is the cheapest cheese steak in Wildwood? Franconi's Pizza, at $10.95 on 3318 Boardwalk. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.05.

What should cheese steak cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Wildwood 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 Wilmington, about 65 mi away, where the best price is $11.50. That is $0.55 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.