Chicken Tortellini Soup in Rockaway

3 restaurants in Rockaway list chicken tortellini soup on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza 46 at $5.95. The typical price across town is $7.30, and the dearest we found is $8.00 at Frank's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $2.05 apart, which is 34% 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 tortellini soup in 1 other area and compare them all on chicken tortellini soup across United States. The typical price there runs $7.47 at the median, so Rockaway is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.18 at Frank's Trattoria in Hackettstown, NJ. The nearest area with it is Hackettstown, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $6.18.

Where is the cheapest chicken tortellini soup in Rockaway? Pizza 46, at $5.95 on 179 US-46. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.05.

What should chicken tortellini soup cost here? About $7.30 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Rockaway 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 Hackettstown, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $6.18. That is $0.23 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.