Salad in Ludlow

3 restaurants in Ludlow list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Corner & Curry House at $7.00, listed as Seaweed Salad. The typical price across town is $10.50, and the dearest we found is $11.95 at Husky Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.95 apart, which is 71% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Ludlow is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 287 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 Chicopee, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $9.20.

Where is the cheapest salad in Ludlow? Pizza Corner & Curry House, at $7.00 on 70 East St. The same dish reaches $11.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.95.

What should salad cost here? About $10.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Ludlow that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Chicopee, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $9.20. That is $2.20 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.