Salad in Iowa City

6 restaurants in Iowa City list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Falbo Bros Pizza at $4.00, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $18.49 at Stella, so the two ends of the list are $14.49 apart, which is 362% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 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 Iowa City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 608 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 Cedar Rapids, about 24 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Iowa City? Falbo Bros Pizza, at $4.00 on 457 S Gilbert St. The same dish reaches $18.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.49.

What should salad cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Iowa City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Cedar Rapids, about 24 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.