Pasta Fagioli Soup in Piscataway

4 restaurants in Piscataway list pasta fagioli soup on their menus. The cheapest is Stelton Pizza at $5.24. The typical price across town is $8.25, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at Panatieri's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $3.75 apart, which is 72% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 pasta fagioli soup in 73 other areas and compare them all on pasta fagioli soup across United States. The typical price there runs $7.75 at the median, so Piscataway is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 18 of the 73. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Casa Mia in Sparta, NJ, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Miller Place, NY. The nearest area with it is South Plainfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $5.50.

Where is the cheapest pasta fagioli soup in Piscataway? Stelton Pizza, at $5.24 on 1315 Stelton Rd. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.75.

What should pasta fagioli soup cost here? About $8.25 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Piscataway that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 South Plainfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $5.50. That is $0.26 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.