French Onion Soup in Calgary

4 restaurants in Calgary list french onion soup on their menus. The cheapest is Begin Tower Dining Centre at $8.00. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $14.00 at Wellington's of Calgary, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 75% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track french onion soup in 4 other areas and compare them all on french onion soup across Canada. The typical price there runs $19.00 at the median, so Calgary is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.00 at Cranberries Restaurant in Toronto, ON, and the highest best price is $19.00 in Vancouver, BC. The nearest area with it is Vancouver, about 689 km away, where the best price is $19.00.

Where is the cheapest french onion soup in Calgary? Begin Tower Dining Centre, at $8.00. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should french onion soup cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Calgary that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Vancouver, about 689 km away, where the best price is $19.00. That is $11.00 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.