Soup Of The Day in Chicago

19 restaurants in Chicago list soup of the day on their menus. The cheapest is Nonno Pino's at $4.00. The typical price across town is $6.75, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at Willow Room, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 19 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track soup of the day in 32 other areas and compare them all on soup of the day across United States. The typical price there runs $6.99 at the median, so Chicago is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Toscanella Restaurant and Pizza in Whitehouse Station, NJ, and the highest best price is $7.00 in Morristown, NJ. The nearest area with it is Toledo, about 214 mi away, where the best price is $4.95.

Where is the cheapest soup of the day in Chicago? Nonno Pino's, at $4.00 on 6718 N Northwest Hwy. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should soup of the day cost here? About $6.75 is the typical price across the 19 kitchens in Chicago that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Toledo, about 214 mi away, where the best price is $4.95. That is $0.95 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.