Salad in Daytona Beach

26 restaurants in Daytona Beach list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Kultcha Shack at $6.00, listed as Ceasar Salad. The typical price across town is $10.95, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Mama Foo Foo, so the two ends of the list are $12.00 apart, which is 200% more for the same dish. Of the 26 kitchens listed, 10 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 9 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 Daytona Beach is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 240 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 Ormond Beach, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $6.95.

Where is the cheapest salad in Daytona Beach? Kultcha Shack, at $6.00 on 322 Seabreeze Blvd. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.00.

What should salad cost here? About $10.95 is the typical price across the 26 kitchens in Daytona Beach that list it. Of the ones listed above, 10 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 Ormond Beach, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $6.95. That is $0.95 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.