Salad in Grande Prairie

13 restaurants in Grande Prairie list salad on their menus. The cheapest is State & Main at $5.50, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at The Office, so the two ends of the list are $11.50 apart, which is 209% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 49 other areas and compare them all on salad across Canada. The typical price there runs $12.50 at the median, so Grande Prairie is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 36 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Chilliwack, BC. The nearest area with it is Prince George, about 292 km away, where the best price is $7.75.

Where is the cheapest salad in Grande Prairie? State & Main, at $5.50 on 8302 100 St. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.50.

What should salad cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Grande Prairie that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Prince George, about 292 km away, where the best price is $7.75. That is $2.25 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.