Chicken Soup in North Babylon

3 restaurants in North Babylon list chicken soup on their menus. The cheapest is Mangia Pizza & Restaurant at $6.00. The typical price across town is $8.75, and the dearest we found is $8.95 at Mama's Brick Oven North Babylon, so the two ends of the list are $2.95 apart, which is 49% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge 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 North Babylon is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 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 Westbury, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken soup in North Babylon? Mangia Pizza & Restaurant, at $6.00 on 785 Deer Park Ave. The same dish reaches $8.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.95.

What should chicken soup cost here? About $8.75 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in North Babylon that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Westbury, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is the same as 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.