Soup Of The Day in Des Moines

3 restaurants in Des Moines list soup of the day on their menus. The cheapest is Cheese Bar at $5.00. The typical price across town is $6.49, and the dearest we found is $7.00 at Skip's, so the two ends of the list are $2.00 apart, which is 40% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 soup of the day in 33 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 Des Moines is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 23 of the 33. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Nonno Pino's in Chicago, IL, and the highest best price is $7.00 in Morristown, NJ. The nearest area with it is Kansas City, about 184 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest soup of the day in Des Moines? Cheese Bar, at $5.00 on 2925 Ingersoll Avenue. The same dish reaches $7.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.00.

What should soup of the day cost here? About $6.49 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Des Moines that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Kansas City, about 184 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $1.99 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.