Salad in Paterson

13 restaurants in Paterson list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Tony's Pizza at $5.00, listed as Green Salad. The typical price across town is $9.50, and the dearest we found is $11.99 at Grab & Go, so the two ends of the list are $6.99 apart, which is 140% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 4 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 Paterson is about average, with a lower typical price than 548 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 Fair Lawn, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.50.

Where is the cheapest salad in Paterson? Tony's Pizza, at $5.00 on 769 River St. The same dish reaches $11.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.99.

What should salad cost here? About $9.50 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Paterson 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 Fair Lawn, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.50. That is $1.50 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.