Salad in Elmira

7 restaurants in Elmira list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Los Panchos Mexican Restaurant at $4.35, listed as Taco Salad. The typical price across town is $9.50, and the dearest we found is $16.99 at Maple Lawn Dairy, so the two ends of the list are $12.64 apart, which is 291% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 Elmira is about average, with a lower typical price than 548 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 Horseheads, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Elmira? Los Panchos Mexican Restaurant, at $4.35 on 250 W Water St. The same dish reaches $16.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.64.

What should salad cost here? About $9.50 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Elmira that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Horseheads, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is $1.64 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.