Hummus in Paterson

3 restaurants in Paterson list hummus on their menus. The cheapest is Darna Resturant at $6.95. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $10.75 at Doner Point, so the two ends of the list are $3.80 apart, which is 55% 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 hummus in 17 other areas and compare them all on hummus across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Paterson is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 10 of the 17. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Royal Pizza in Los Angeles, CA, and the highest best price is $8.25 in Leesburg, VA. The nearest area with it is Montclair, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $7.50.

Where is the cheapest hummus in Paterson? Darna Resturant, at $6.95 on 1090 Main Street. The same dish reaches $10.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.80.

What should hummus cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Paterson 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 Montclair, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $7.50. That is $0.55 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.