Salad in Atlanta

66 restaurants in Atlanta list salad on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Old Vinings Inn at $4.50, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $11.00, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $12.00 at 5Church Atlanta, so the two ends of the list are $7.50 apart, which is 167% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 28 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 1106 other areas and compare them all on salad across United States. The typical price there runs $9.50 at the median, so Atlanta is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 167 of the 1106. 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 College Park, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $7.49.

Where is the cheapest salad in Atlanta? Old Vinings Inn, at $4.50 on 3011 Paces Mill Road Southeast. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.50.

What should salad cost here? About $11.00 is the typical price across the 66 kitchens in Atlanta that list it. Of the ones listed above, 28 are 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 College Park, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $7.49. That is $2.99 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.