Chicken Soup in Woodside

3 restaurants in Woodside list chicken soup on their menus. The cheapest is 69 Pizzeria at $4.50. The typical price across town is $6.35, and the dearest we found is $7.95 at Miranda Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $3.45 apart, which is 77% 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 chicken soup in 10 other areas and compare them all on chicken soup across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Woodside is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 10 of the 10. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Simon's Kitchen in Ridgewood, NY, and the highest best price is $7.95 in Mahwah, NJ. The nearest area with it is Long Island City, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken soup in Woodside? 69 Pizzeria, at $4.50 on 49-17 69th Street. The same dish reaches $7.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.45.

What should chicken soup cost here? About $6.35 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Woodside 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 Long Island City, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.50 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.