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Slice Price Contest
updated: Oct 13, 2012, 12:00 PM

By The Dedicated Staff

The Edhat Staff was curious how much a slice of pizza costs today in comparison to our 2006 price check. Fine, you caught us, we thought of this during lunch time... over a pizza.

The Dedicated Staff discovered that inflation surely does exist and pizza is not excluded. Although we have considered starting a strong petition to keep a fixed pizza price throughout Santa Barbara.

In case you've forgotten, here are the results from 2006.

And here are our most recent results in 2012:

The average price of a slice being $3.10. Congratulations to Edhat Subscriber dillydally for guessing a very close $3.12. You shall look stunning in your Edhat t-shirt while ordering a slice.

In six years, our average slice of pizza has increased by $0.51 cents. That is almost $0.09 cents a year. It doesn't seem like much right now, but think of it six years from now. Our average slice of pizza will be close to what Uncle Rocco's is charging today! By the way, are you hungry yet?

Comments in order of when they were received | (reverse order)

NATURE BOY	2012-10-13 12:20 PM
How did they decide which pizza places to include and which to exclude?
EDHAT ONLINE	2012-10-13 12:30 PM
The Edhat Staff used the same list from 2006, subtracting the businesses that closed and adding the newer businesses that sell pizza by the slice.
COMMENT 330970	2012-10-13 12:41 PM
Costco $1.99
COMMENT 330974P	2012-10-13 12:53 PM
Costco is a food court, not a pizza parlor
ROGER DODGER	2012-10-13 01:09 PM
Now I want pizza..
COMMENT 330990	2012-10-13 01:14 PM
974 a slice of pizza was the question Roger doesn't care what the facility is called.
ROGER DODGER	2012-10-13 01:21 PM
Little Cesars .75 a slice.
NATURE BOY	2012-10-13 01:40 PM
Actually, in the original contest (which they used as a template for this one), they spelled out the criteria & specifically ruled out Costco. It could have been made clearer here, though.
COMMENT 331004	2012-10-13 01:50 PM
Your contests remind me of the debates - way too many gray area. Was the slice cheese? Did it include meat? Was it vegetarian or vegan? My goodness, if you are going to around "announcing" slice prices, at least set the parameters beforehand.
COMMENT 331014	2012-10-13 02:25 PM
Shenanigans! Little Caesars isn't pizza. :)
COMMENT 331030	2012-10-13 04:04 PM
i pay $4 for a yummy huge slice at the whole foods, so good!
ROGER DODGER	2012-10-13 04:14 PM
Notre Dame YaaaaaaaaaaaaaY!
COMMENT 331045	2012-10-13 05:35 PM
My goodness, I vote Whole Foods. Cheaper than Little Ceasars and about 100 times better.
COMMENT 331050	2012-10-13 06:10 PM
I lived on Woodstock's pizza while a student at UCSB. Good stuff! Boooo on Whole Foods. Their CEO, John Mackey is against health care reform (Google and ye shall find).
NATURE BOY	2012-10-13 09:02 PM
045: $4.00 is cheaper than $0.75??? Are you insane??
ROGER DODGER	2012-10-14 09:23 AM
Little Cesars is pizza when your poor.
PARKIEP	2012-10-14 10:03 AM
Has Patrini gone out of business???
AGENTSME	2012-10-14 10:04 AM
I think Taffy's makes the best Pizza!!
COMMENT 331443	2012-10-15 09:47 AM
PARKIEP - PEtrini's has not gone out of business. But seeing that you brought them up in a pizza thread, I have to chime in that their pizza is horrible. Now, as for the supposedly "outrageous" $0.51 increase in average pizza price.....that works out to an average 2.91% yearly increase. That's not too bad considering our average inflation rate over that period is 2.4%. In comparison, a Honda Accord has gone up 4.22% (each year, on average), gasoline 8.87%, and milk 10.54%.

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