Salad in Columbus

54 restaurants in Columbus list salad on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Papa Joe's Pizza at $4.00. The typical price across town is $8.90, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $10.00 at Los Guachos Taqueria, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 22 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 13 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge 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 Columbus is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 768 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 Westerville, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $4.25.

Where is the cheapest salad in Columbus? Papa Joe's Pizza, at $4.00 on 2970 Sullivant Ave. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should salad cost here? About $8.90 is the typical price across the 54 kitchens in Columbus that list it. Of the ones listed above, 22 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Westerville, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $4.25. That is $0.25 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.