Side Salad in Birmingham

3 restaurants in Birmingham list side salad on their menus. The cheapest is Giuseppe's Cafe at $4.00. The typical price across town is $6.00, and the dearest we found is $7.00 at Otey's Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $3.00 apart, which is 75% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track side salad in 27 other areas and compare them all on side salad across United States. The typical price there runs $6.00 at the median, so Birmingham is about average, with a lower typical price than 13 of the 27. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Bella Pizza Westpark in Cleveland, OH, and the highest best price is $7.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Murfreesboro, about 163 mi away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest side salad in Birmingham? Giuseppe's Cafe, at $4.00 on 925 8th St S. The same dish reaches $7.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.00.

What should side salad cost here? About $6.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Birmingham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Murfreesboro, about 163 mi away, where the best price is $4.99. That is $0.99 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.