Salad in Boston

61 restaurants in Boston list salad on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Primo's Pizza Restaurant at $4.99, listed as Potato Salad. The typical price across town is $11.95, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $12.99 at Cappy's Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 160% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 24 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 15 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 114 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 South Boston, about 0 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Boston? Primo's Pizza Restaurant, at $4.99 on 28 Myrtle St. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should salad cost here? About $11.95 is the typical price across the 61 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 24 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 South Boston, about 0 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $2.01 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.