Salad in East Meadow

6 restaurants in East Meadow list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Halal Hub Pizza Plus at $6.49, listed as Garden Salad. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $15.95 at Majors Steakhouse, so the two ends of the list are $9.46 apart, which is 146% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 East Meadow is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 46 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 North Bellmore, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.35.

Where is the cheapest salad in East Meadow? Halal Hub Pizza Plus, at $6.49 on 1862 Front St E. The same dish reaches $15.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.46.

What should salad cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in East Meadow that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 North Bellmore, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.35. That is $0.86 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.