Chicken Soup in Metuchen

3 restaurants in Metuchen list chicken soup on their menus. The cheapest is Antonio's Brick Oven Pizza at $6.50. The typical price across town is $7.50, and the dearest we found is $8.00 at Joey D's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $1.50 apart, which is 23% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken soup in 9 other areas and compare them all on chicken soup across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Metuchen is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 9. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Simon's Kitchen in Ridgewood, NY, and the highest best price is $7.95 in Mahwah, NJ. The nearest area with it is Keyport, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $6.95.

Where is the cheapest chicken soup in Metuchen? Antonio's Brick Oven Pizza, at $6.50 on 453 Main St. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.50.

What should chicken soup cost here? About $7.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Metuchen that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 are 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 Keyport, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $6.95. That is $0.45 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.