Cheesesteak Sandwich in Wilmington

7 restaurants in Wilmington list cheesesteak sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is New York Fried Chicken & Pizza at $7.99. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $16.50 at DiMeo's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.51 apart, which is 107% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheesesteak sandwich in 22 other areas and compare them all on cheesesteak sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $12.00 at the median, so Wilmington is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 16 of the 22. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.25 at Pizzariffic in Reading, PA, and the highest best price is $11.99 in Williamstown, NJ. The nearest area with it is Darby, about 19 mi away, where the best price is $11.75.

Where is the cheapest cheesesteak sandwich in Wilmington? New York Fried Chicken & Pizza, at $7.99 on 2210 N Market St. The same dish reaches $16.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.51.

What should cheesesteak sandwich cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Wilmington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Darby, about 19 mi away, where the best price is $11.75. That is $3.76 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.