Salad in Arlington

42 restaurants in Arlington list salad on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Pizza Di Parma at $4.95, listed as House Salad. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $15.00 at Ballston Local, so the two ends of the list are $10.05 apart, which is 203% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 19 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 16 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 Arlington is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 412 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 Falls Church, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Arlington? Pizza Di Parma, at $4.95 on 2249 S Shirlington Rd. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.05.

What should salad cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 42 kitchens in Arlington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 19 are more than a dollar below that and 16 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 Falls Church, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $5.00. That is $0.05 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.