Salad in Buffalo Grove

4 restaurants in Buffalo Grove list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Buffalo Grove Pizza & Pasta at $4.00, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $5.50, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at Mug's Pizza & Ribs, so the two ends of the list are $4.99 apart, which is 125% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 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 Buffalo Grove is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1100 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 Palatine, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Buffalo Grove? Buffalo Grove Pizza & Pasta, at $4.00 on 217 W. Dundee Rd. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.99.

What should salad cost here? About $5.50 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Buffalo Grove that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Palatine, about 4 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.