Minestrone Soup in Merrick

5 restaurants in Merrick list minestrone soup on their menus. The cheapest is Via Roma Pizza at $6.80. The typical price across town is $8.32, and the dearest we found is $9.36 at Montana Brothers, so the two ends of the list are $2.56 apart, which is 38% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 $8.00 at the median, so Merrick is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 20 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 Rockville Centre, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.15.

Where is the cheapest minestrone soup in Merrick? Via Roma Pizza, at $6.80 on 1764 Merrick Ave. The same dish reaches $9.36 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.56.

What should minestrone soup cost here? About $8.32 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Merrick 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 Rockville Centre, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.15. That is $0.35 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.