Salad in Malden

17 restaurants in Malden list salad on their menus. The cheapest is The Island at $6.00, listed as HOUSE SALAD. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $12.60 at King Bibis Malden, so the two ends of the list are $6.60 apart, which is 110% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 5 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 $9.50 at the median, so Malden is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 415 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 Everett, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.75.

Where is the cheapest salad in Malden? The Island, at $6.00 on 118 Ferry Street. The same dish reaches $12.60 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.60.

What should salad cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Malden that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Everett, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.75. That is $0.75 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.