Salad in Louisville

22 restaurants in Louisville list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Four Pegs Smokehouse & Bar at $4.25, listed as Seasonal salad. The typical price across town is $8.24, and the dearest we found is $16.45 at Vinaigrette Salad Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $12.20 apart, which is 287% more for the same dish. Of the 22 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 8 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 Louisville is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 842 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 Elizabethtown, about 39 mi away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Louisville? Four Pegs Smokehouse & Bar, at $4.25. The same dish reaches $16.45 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.20.

What should salad cost here? About $8.24 is the typical price across the 22 kitchens in Louisville that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 8 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 Elizabethtown, about 39 mi away, where the best price is $4.99. That is $0.74 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.