Minestrone Soup in Edison

6 restaurants in Edison list minestrone soup on their menus. The cheapest is Fratelli's Pizza at $5.00. The typical price across town is $7.95, and the dearest we found is $11.00 at Francesco's Pizzeria & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 120% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track minestrone soup in 45 other areas and compare them all on minestrone soup across United States. The typical price there runs $8.25 at the median, so Edison is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 29 of the 45. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.35 at Italian Delight in Powhatan, VA, and the highest best price is $9.00 in Franklin Square, NY. The nearest area with it is Milltown, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest minestrone soup in Edison? Fratelli's Pizza, at $5.00 on 999 Amboy Ave. The same dish reaches $11.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should minestrone soup cost here? About $7.95 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Edison that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Milltown, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is $0.99 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.