Chicken Noodle Soup in Long Island City

5 restaurants in Long Island City list chicken noodle soup on their menus. The cheapest is Lucky Pizzeria & Cafe at $5.95. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $27.00 at Veselka, so the two ends of the list are $21.05 apart, which is 354% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit 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 $7.50 at the median, so Long Island City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 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 Astoria, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken noodle soup in Long Island City? Lucky Pizzeria & Cafe, at $5.95 on 27-10 Queens Plaza S. The same dish reaches $27.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $21.05.

What should chicken noodle soup cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Long Island City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Astoria, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $1.05 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.