Salad in Parlin

5 restaurants in Parlin list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Bagel 1 at $5.49, listed as Egg Salad. The typical price across town is $7.80, and the dearest we found is $12.50 at Primo's Pizza and Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $7.01 apart, which is 128% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 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 Parlin is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 963 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 Sayreville, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $6.28.

Where is the cheapest salad in Parlin? Bagel 1, at $5.49 on 777 Washington Rd. The same dish reaches $12.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.01.

What should salad cost here? About $7.80 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Parlin that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Sayreville, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $6.28. That is $0.79 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.