Chicken Noodle Soup in Colonial Heights

3 restaurants in Colonial Heights list chicken noodle soup on their menus. The cheapest is Tops China at $4.25. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $8.50 at Dante's Pizzeria & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $4.25 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track chicken noodle soup in 64 other areas and compare them all on chicken noodle soup across United States. The typical price there runs $7.70 at the median, so Colonial Heights is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 40 of the 64. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Royal Sandwich Co in West Palm Beach, FL, and the highest best price is $7.65 in Massapequa, NY. The nearest area with it is Powhatan, about 33 mi away, where the best price is $7.60.

Where is the cheapest chicken noodle soup in Colonial Heights? Tops China, at $4.25 on 3037 Boulevard. The same dish reaches $8.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.25.

What should chicken noodle soup cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Colonial Heights that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Powhatan, about 33 mi away, where the best price is $7.60. That is $3.35 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.