Salad in Kelowna

9 restaurants in Kelowna list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Pakwaan Restaurant at $5.95, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $26.75 at Earls Kelowna, so the two ends of the list are $20.80 apart, which is 350% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 $11.95 at the median, so Kelowna is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 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 Penticton, about 45 km away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Kelowna? Pakwaan Restaurant, at $5.95 on 538 Yates Rd #4. The same dish reaches $26.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $20.80.

What should salad cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Kelowna that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Penticton, about 45 km away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $2.05 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.