Salad in Bakersfield

9 restaurants in Bakersfield list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Pizz-a-Perfection at $6.99, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Slice of Italy Rosedale, so the two ends of the list are $5.01 apart, which is 72% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Bakersfield is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 415 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 Santa Clarita, about 82 mi away, where the best price is $7.25.

Where is the cheapest salad in Bakersfield? Pizz-a-Perfection, at $6.99 on 8500 Harris Rd. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.01.

What should salad cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Bakersfield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 Santa Clarita, about 82 mi away, where the best price is $7.25. That is $0.26 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.