Chicken Soup in Newark

7 restaurants in Newark list chicken soup on their menus. The cheapest is Giovanni Pizza & Grill at $4.95. The typical price across town is $7.95, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Peten Kitchen Grill, so the two ends of the list are $7.05 apart, which is 142% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track chicken soup in 10 other areas and compare them all on chicken soup across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Newark is about average, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 10. 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 Long Island City, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken soup in Newark? Giovanni Pizza & Grill, at $4.95 on 191 Central Avenue. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.05.

What should chicken soup cost here? About $7.95 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Newark 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 Long Island City, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. 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.