Salad in Naugatuck

12 restaurants in Naugatuck list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe at $4.49, listed as Fresh Mozzarella & Tomato Salad. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $14.00 at Hometown Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.51 apart, which is 212% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 Naugatuck is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 481 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 Southbury, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $4.49.

Where is the cheapest salad in Naugatuck? Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe, at $4.49 on 87 Maple Street. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.51.

What should salad cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Naugatuck that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Southbury, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $4.49. That is the same as 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.