Salad in Long Island City

29 restaurants in Long Island City list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Blinks Deli & Pizza at $4.50, listed as Potato Salad. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $26.95 at Finestra Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $22.45 apart, which is 499% more for the same dish. Of the 29 kitchens listed, 13 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 12 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 Long Island City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 67 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 Sunnyside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Long Island City? Blinks Deli & Pizza, at $4.50 on 43-01 35th St. The same dish reaches $26.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $22.45.

What should salad cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 29 kitchens in Long Island City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 13 are more than a dollar below that and 12 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 Sunnyside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.50 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.