Salad in Alpharetta

7 restaurants in Alpharetta list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Mangia Ristorante & Pizzeria at $4.25, listed as House Salad. The typical price across town is $10.44, and the dearest we found is $19.99 at Zama Mexican Cuisine & Margarita Bar, so the two ends of the list are $15.74 apart, which is 370% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 1103 other areas and compare them all on salad across United States. The typical price there runs $9.50 at the median, so Alpharetta is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 316 of the 1103. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Kennedy Pizza & Fried Chicken in Newark, NJ, and the highest best price is $13.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Johns Creek, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Alpharetta? Mangia Ristorante & Pizzeria, at $4.25 on 5354 McGinnis Ferry Rd. The same dish reaches $19.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.74.

What should salad cost here? About $10.44 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Alpharetta that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Johns Creek, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $2.74 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.