Salad in Los Angeles

104 restaurants in Los Angeles list salad on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Ciccero's Pizza at $4.55, listed as Tossed Green Salad. The typical price across town is $10.49, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $9.00 at Raffallo's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.45 apart, which is 98% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 40 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 0 sit within a dollar of it and 0 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 Los Angeles is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 302 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 West Hollywood, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.79.

Where is the cheapest salad in Los Angeles? Ciccero's Pizza, at $4.55 on 1536 S La Cienega Blvd. The same dish reaches $9.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.45.

What should salad cost here? About $10.49 is the typical price across the 104 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 40 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 West Hollywood, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.79. That is $3.24 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.