Salad in Niagara Falls

10 restaurants in Niagara Falls list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Kelseys Original Roadhouse Niagara Falls at $4.98, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $21.99 at The Secret Garden Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $17.01 apart, which is 342% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 49 other areas and compare them all on salad across Canada. The typical price there runs $11.95 at the median, so Niagara Falls is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 23 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Chilliwack, BC. The nearest area with it is St. Catharines, about 16 km away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Niagara Falls? Kelseys Original Roadhouse Niagara Falls, at $4.98 on 4960 Clifton Hill. The same dish reaches $21.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $17.01.

What should salad cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Niagara Falls that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 St. Catharines, about 16 km away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.02 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.