Salad in Astoria

40 restaurants in Astoria list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Bel-Aire Diner at $4.19, listed as Potato Salad. The typical price across town is $11.95, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Island, so the two ends of the list are $15.81 apart, which is 377% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 18 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 17 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 Astoria is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 114 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 Long Island City, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest salad in Astoria? Bel-Aire Diner, at $4.19 on 31-91 21st St. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.81.

What should salad cost here? About $11.95 is the typical price across the 40 kitchens in Astoria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 18 are more than a dollar below that and 17 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 Long Island City, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. That is $0.31 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.