Salad in Bay Shore

16 restaurants in Bay Shore list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Amore Pizzeria at $5.95, listed as Spinach Salad. The typical price across town is $11.00, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Ditch, so the two ends of the list are $12.05 apart, which is 203% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 6 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 Bay Shore is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 167 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 West Islip, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.80.

Where is the cheapest salad in Bay Shore? Amore Pizzeria, at $5.95 on 2110 Union Blvd. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.05.

What should salad cost here? About $11.00 is the typical price across the 16 kitchens in Bay Shore that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 West Islip, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.80. That is $1.85 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.