Lentil Soup in West Islip

4 restaurants in West Islip list lentil soup on their menus. The cheapest is Benedetto's Pizza & Pasta at $6.95. The typical price across town is $8.27, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at Our Little Italy Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $2.04 apart, which is 29% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 lentil soup in 15 other areas and compare them all on lentil soup across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so West Islip is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 7 of the 15. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.99 at Perfecto Pizza in Jamaica, NY, and the highest best price is $8.02 in Massapequa Park, NY. The nearest area with it is Massapequa Park, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $8.02.

Where is the cheapest lentil soup in West Islip? Benedetto's Pizza & Pasta, at $6.95 on 504 Union Blvd. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.04.

What should lentil soup cost here? About $8.27 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in West Islip 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 Massapequa Park, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $8.02. That is $1.07 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.