Salmon in Charlotte

7 restaurants in Charlotte list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Yakiko Hibachi Grill at $9.99. The typical price across town is $17.95, and the dearest we found is $29.40 at Fiamma Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $19.41 apart, which is 194% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salmon in 34 other areas and compare them all on salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $20.00 at the median, so Charlotte is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 of the 34. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Arashi Yama in Gainesville, FL, and the highest best price is $28.00 in Savannah, GA. The nearest area with it is Spartanburg, about 65 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Charlotte? Yakiko Hibachi Grill, at $9.99 on 710 West Trade Street. The same dish reaches $29.40 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $19.41.

What should salmon cost here? About $17.95 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Charlotte that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Spartanburg, about 65 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. 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.