Side Salad in Cleveland

3 restaurants in Cleveland list side salad on their menus. The cheapest is Bella Pizza Westpark at $4.00. The typical price across town is $5.00, and the dearest we found is $5.95 at Jack Spratt's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $1.95 apart, which is 49% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track side salad in 27 other areas and compare them all on side salad across United States. The typical price there runs $6.00 at the median, so Cleveland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 27 of the 27. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Giuseppe's Cafe in Birmingham, AL, and the highest best price is $7.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Grand Rapids, about 228 mi away, where the best price is $4.00.

Where is the cheapest side salad in Cleveland? Bella Pizza Westpark, at $4.00 on 4475 Rocky River Dr. The same dish reaches $5.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.95.

What should side salad cost here? About $5.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Cleveland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Grand Rapids, about 228 mi away, where the best price is $4.00. That is the same as 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.