Lentil Soup in Metuchen

3 restaurants in Metuchen list lentil 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 lentil soup in 15 other areas and compare them all on lentil soup across United States. The typical price there runs $8.27 at the median, so Metuchen is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 11 of the 15. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.99 at Perfecto Pizza in Jamaica, NY, and the highest best price is $8.02 in Massapequa Park, NY. The nearest area with it is Bayonne, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest lentil 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 lentil 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 Bayonne, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $5.00. That is $1.50 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.