Chicken Noodle Soup in South Amboy

3 restaurants in South Amboy list chicken noodle soup on their menus. The cheapest is Don Giovanni at $5.95. The typical price across town is $6.95, and the dearest we found is $7.16 at Pronto Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $1.21 apart, which is 20% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 charge 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 $7.70 at the median, so South Amboy is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 49 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 Sayreville, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken noodle soup in South Amboy? Don Giovanni, at $5.95 on 276 Main St. The same dish reaches $7.16 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.21.

What should chicken noodle soup cost here? About $6.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in South Amboy that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 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 Sayreville, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.50. 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.