Pasta Fagioli Soup in Watchung

3 restaurants in Watchung list pasta fagioli soup on their menus. The cheapest is Marino's Trattoria at $6.95. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $9.00 at Grano Pizzeria & Italian Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $2.05 apart, which is 29% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Watchung is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 25 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 Westfield, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.95.

Where is the cheapest pasta fagioli soup in Watchung? Marino's Trattoria, at $6.95 on 475 Watchung Ave. The same dish reaches $9.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.05.

What should pasta fagioli soup cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Watchung 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 Westfield, about 3 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.