Salad in Millstone

4 restaurants in Millstone list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Vesuvio's Pizza at $4.00, listed as Dinner Salad. The typical price across town is $8.95, and the dearest we found is $9.95 at Zio's Pizzeria & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $5.95 apart, which is 149% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 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 Millstone is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 729 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 Freehold, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $6.19.

Where is the cheapest salad in Millstone? Vesuvio's Pizza, at $4.00 on 221 Millstone Rd. The same dish reaches $9.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.95.

What should salad cost here? About $8.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Millstone that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Freehold, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $6.19. That is $2.19 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.