Chicken Noodle Soup in Oceanside

4 restaurants in Oceanside list chicken noodle soup on their menus. The cheapest is Bonbino's Pizza at $5.25. The typical price across town is $8.05, and the dearest we found is $8.95 at Villa Formia, so the two ends of the list are $3.70 apart, which is 70% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 noodle soup in 64 other areas and compare them all on chicken noodle soup across United States. The typical price there runs $7.50 at the median, so Oceanside is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 13 of the 64. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Royal Sandwich Co in West Palm Beach, FL, and the highest best price is $7.65 in Massapequa, NY. The nearest area with it is Carle Place, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $6.45.

Where is the cheapest chicken noodle soup in Oceanside? Bonbino's Pizza, at $5.25 on 311 Lawson Blvd. The same dish reaches $8.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.70.

What should chicken noodle soup cost here? About $8.05 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Oceanside 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 Carle Place, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $6.45. That is $1.20 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.