Salad in East Orange

9 restaurants in East Orange list salad on their menus. The cheapest is RISE CARIBBEAN at $5.20, listed as Potato Salad. The typical price across town is $7.25, and the dearest we found is $9.49 at Golden Wings Fish & Chicken The Best Chicken In Town, so the two ends of the list are $4.29 apart, which is 82% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge 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 $9.50 at the median, so East Orange is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1005 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 West Orange, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in East Orange? RISE CARIBBEAN, at $5.20 on 441 Main St. The same dish reaches $9.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.29.

What should salad cost here? About $7.25 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in East Orange that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 West Orange, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is $0.79 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.