Salad in Calgary

53 restaurants in Calgary list salad on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Zak's Eatery & Market at $4.95, listed as Green Salad. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $17.00 at Dairy Lane Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $12.05 apart, which is 243% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 24 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 10 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 $11.95 at the median, so Calgary is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 18 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 Banff, about 125 km away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Calgary? Zak's Eatery & Market, at $4.95 on 8906 Macleod Trail SE. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.05.

What should salad cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 53 kitchens in Calgary that list it. Of the ones listed above, 24 are more than a dollar below that and 10 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 Banff, about 125 km away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $3.05 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.