Salad in Lakewood

7 restaurants in Lakewood list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Laventina's Pizza at $4.89, listed as Chicken Salad. The typical price across town is $5.99, and the dearest we found is $10.99 at Aliacci Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $6.10 apart, which is 125% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit 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 Lakewood is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1089 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 Bellflower, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $5.49.

Where is the cheapest salad in Lakewood? Laventina's Pizza, at $4.89 on 5806 Bellflower Blvd. The same dish reaches $10.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.10.

What should salad cost here? About $5.99 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Lakewood that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Bellflower, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $5.49. That is $0.60 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.