Salad in Natick

9 restaurants in Natick list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Casey's Diner at $7.00, listed as Egg Salad. The typical price across town is $9.75, and the dearest we found is $14.39 at Pizza Shop at South Natick, so the two ends of the list are $7.39 apart, which is 106% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Natick is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 533 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 Framingham, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.50.

Where is the cheapest salad in Natick? Casey's Diner, at $7.00 on 36 South Avenue. The same dish reaches $14.39 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.39.

What should salad cost here? About $9.75 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Natick that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 Framingham, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.50. That is $2.50 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.