Salad in Neptune

5 restaurants in Neptune list salad on their menus. The cheapest is La Lupa di Roma at $4.75, listed as Garden Salad. The typical price across town is $10.95, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Brick House Tavern + Tap, so the two ends of the list are $10.25 apart, which is 216% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 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 Neptune is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 240 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 Asbury Park, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Neptune? La Lupa di Roma, at $4.75 on 205 W Sylvania Ave. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.25.

What should salad cost here? About $10.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Neptune that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Asbury Park, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $2.25 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.