Salad in Birmingham

17 restaurants in Birmingham list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Giuseppe's Cafe at $4.00, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at BrickTop's, so the two ends of the list are $16.00 apart, which is 400% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 7 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 Birmingham is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 841 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 Huntsville, about 83 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest salad in Birmingham? Giuseppe's Cafe, at $4.00 on 925 8th St S. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.00.

What should salad cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Birmingham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 Huntsville, about 83 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. 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.