Papa John's Prices in Houston vs San Diego

A typical 14 Inch Thin Create Your Own in Houston is $15.49; in San Diego it is $22.50. Those are city medians (28 restaurants against 9 restaurants), not one store standing in for the skyline. Same chain, two city medians, pickup prices from Papa John's own ordering system.

This page is the city, not a restaurant. Houston’s figure is the median pickup price across 28 Papa John's restaurants we priced; San Diego’s is the median across 9. One expensive airport location cannot drag either city, and one cheap store cannot pretend to be it.

Inside Houston a 14 Inch Thin Create Your Own runs $14.99 to $15.99 at most of those restaurants (middle 80%). Inside San Diego it runs $22.50 to $22.50 at most of those restaurants (middle 80%). The city-to-city gap on that item is $7.01 on the medians, which is a statement about the two cities, not about a single till in either one. A spread inside one city is why a state average hides half the story.

To compare two specific addresses, use Store mode on the picker above. A Papa John's in Houston is not “Houston.”

Houston as of 26 September 2026 · San Diego as of 26 September 2026

Typical overlapping menu in these two cities

Only items that show up at enough restaurants in both cities to publish a median. Sorted by the city-to-city gap, not by either city’s menu board.

Common in only one of these cities

Houston’s restaurants listed 6 comparable items often enough to publish a city median that San Diego did not. San Diego listed 5 that Houston did not. Those stay off the city-to-city table, because a median for a city that barely sells the item would be a fake number.

Common in Houston, not in the other city: 20 Ounce Mountain Dew, Banana Peppers, 2 Liter Dr. Pepper, 20 Ounce Dr. Pepper, 10 Inch Jalapeno Bacon Cheesesticks, and 12 Inch Jalapeno Bacon Cheesesticks.

Common in San Diego, not in the other city: 14 Inch Original Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Pizza, 16 Inch New York Style Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Pizza, 10 Inch Original Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Pizza, 2 Liter Pepsi Wild Cherry, and 20 Ounce Pepsi Wild Cherry.

How to read this

Each price is the median pickup quote at the restaurants we priced in that city, not one celebrity store and not a mean pulled by an airport. Tax is not included. A gap of a few cents on one sandwich is noise; 185 overlapping items pointing the same way is a difference between the two cities.

Compare a different pair of cities with the picker at the top, or see every priced Papa John's restaurant on the price map — the map is store grain; this page is the city sitting on top of it.