Side Salad in Grand Rapids

4 restaurants in Grand Rapids list side salad on their menus. The cheapest is Vander Mill Grand Rapids at $4.00. The typical price across town is $6.00, and the dearest we found is $6.60 at Flo's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $2.60 apart, which is 65% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track side salad in 28 other areas and compare them all on side salad across United States. The typical price there runs $6.00 at the median, so Grand Rapids is about average, with a lower typical price than 13 of the 28. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Giuseppe's Cafe in Birmingham, AL, and the highest best price is $7.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Milwaukee, about 116 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest side salad in Grand Rapids? Vander Mill Grand Rapids, at $4.00. The same dish reaches $6.60 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.60.

What should side salad cost here? About $6.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Grand Rapids that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Milwaukee, about 116 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is $1.99 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.