Salad in Marlborough

6 restaurants in Marlborough list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Pie & Kitchen at $4.59, listed as House Salad. The typical price across town is $10.45, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Welly's Family Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $10.41 apart, which is 227% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 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 Marlborough is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 314 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 Maynard, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Marlborough? Pizza Pie & Kitchen, at $4.59 on 19 Maple St. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.41.

What should salad cost here? About $10.45 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Marlborough that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Maynard, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $4.41 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.