Salad in Orange

16 restaurants in Orange list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Pasta Party at $4.00, listed as Potato Salad. The typical price across town is $10.00, and the dearest we found is $18.29 at Chili's Grill & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $14.29 apart, which is 357% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge 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 Orange is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 347 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 Anaheim, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.25.

Where is the cheapest salad in Orange? Pasta Party, at $4.00 on 124 E Lincoln Ave. The same dish reaches $18.29 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.29.

What should salad cost here? About $10.00 is the typical price across the 16 kitchens in Orange that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 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 Anaheim, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.25. That is $0.25 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.