Salad in Belleville

6 restaurants in Belleville list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Dragon Rolls at $5.50, listed as House Salad. The typical price across town is $11.95, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Capers, so the two ends of the list are $12.50 apart, which is 227% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 49 other areas and compare them all on salad across Canada. The typical price there runs $12.50 at the median, so Belleville is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 25 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Chilliwack, BC. The nearest area with it is Kingston, about 71 km away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Belleville? Dragon Rolls, at $5.50 on 265 N Front St. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.50.

What should salad cost here? About $11.95 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Belleville that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Kingston, about 71 km away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $0.50 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.