Salad in Lansdale

12 restaurants in Lansdale list salad on their menus. The cheapest is West Main Diner at $5.95, listed as Chicken salad. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $12.90 at Spatola's Pizza & Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $6.95 apart, which is 117% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 4 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 Lansdale 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 Hatfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.25.

Where is the cheapest salad in Lansdale? West Main Diner, at $5.95 on 805 West Main Street. The same dish reaches $12.90 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.95.

What should salad cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Lansdale that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Hatfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.25. That is $0.30 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.