Hummus in Providence

4 restaurants in Providence list hummus on their menus. The cheapest is Ocean State Pizza at $6.95. The typical price across town is $11.69, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at The Malted Barley, so the two ends of the list are $8.05 apart, which is 116% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Providence is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 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 Paterson, about 156 mi away, where the best price is $6.95.

Where is the cheapest hummus in Providence? Ocean State Pizza, at $6.95 on 1323 Broad St. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.05.

What should hummus cost here? About $11.69 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Providence that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Paterson, about 156 mi away, where the best price is $6.95. 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.