Salad in Lebanon

10 restaurants in Lebanon list salad on their menus. The cheapest is CJ Ephrata Pizza 2 at $4.03, listed as Macaroni Salad. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $15.49 at Big Daddy's Ribs & Wings, so the two ends of the list are $11.46 apart, which is 284% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 1106 other areas and compare them all on salad across United States. The typical price there runs $9.54 at the median, so Lebanon is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1016 of the 1106. 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 Palmyra, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Lebanon? CJ Ephrata Pizza 2, at $4.03 on 700 Reinoehl Street. The same dish reaches $15.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.46.

What should salad cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Lebanon that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 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 Palmyra, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is $1.96 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.