Salad in Kansas City

31 restaurants in Kansas City list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Burnt End BBQ at $4.99, listed as Garden Salad. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $21.00 at Bristol Seafood Grill, so the two ends of the list are $16.01 apart, which is 321% more for the same dish. Of the 31 kitchens listed, 14 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 11 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 Kansas City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 90 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 Overland Park, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $5.10.

Where is the cheapest salad in Kansas City? Burnt End BBQ, at $4.99. The same dish reaches $21.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.01.

What should salad cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 31 kitchens in Kansas City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 14 are more than a dollar below that and 11 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 Overland Park, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $5.10. That is $0.11 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.