Pizza in Wilkes-Barre

8 restaurants in Wilkes-Barre list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Whatinthe Sam Hill's Brick Oven Pizza at $7.30. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $16.99 at C J's Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $9.69 apart, which is 133% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Wilkes-Barre is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 837 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Pittston, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Wilkes-Barre? Whatinthe Sam Hill's Brick Oven Pizza, at $7.30 on 100 George Ave. The same dish reaches $16.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.69.

What should pizza cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Wilkes-Barre that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 are 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 Pittston, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $4.70 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.