Salad in Long Beach

23 restaurants in Long Beach list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Sorrento Italian Kitchen at $4.89, listed as Dinner Salad. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $18.29 at Chili's Grill & Bar Long Beach, so the two ends of the list are $13.40 apart, which is 274% more for the same dish. Of the 23 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 10 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 Long Beach is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 884 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 Lakewood, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $4.89.

Where is the cheapest salad in Long Beach? Sorrento Italian Kitchen, at $4.89 on 4102 Orange Ave. The same dish reaches $18.29 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.40.

What should salad cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 23 kitchens in Long Beach that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 10 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 Lakewood, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $4.89. That is the same as 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.