Salad in Copiague

5 restaurants in Copiague list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Hispano American Restaurant at $5.99. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $9.50 at Albert's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.51 apart, which is 59% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 1106 other areas and compare them all on salad across United States. The typical price there runs $9.54 at the median, so Copiague is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 845 of the 1106. 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 Lindenhurst, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Copiague? Hispano American Restaurant, at $5.99 on 1038 Montauk Hwy. The same dish reaches $9.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.51.

What should salad cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Copiague 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 Lindenhurst, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $0.01 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.