Salad in Phillipsburg

15 restaurants in Phillipsburg list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Italy's Restaurant & Pizza at $4.10, listed as Dinner Salad. The typical price across town is $7.95, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Frank's Trattoria, so the two ends of the list are $11.90 apart, which is 290% more for the same dish. Of the 15 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 7 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 Phillipsburg is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 932 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 Easton, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest salad in Phillipsburg? Italy's Restaurant & Pizza, at $4.10 on 201 Stryker Rd. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.90.

What should salad cost here? About $7.95 is the typical price across the 15 kitchens in Phillipsburg that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 Easton, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. That is $0.40 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.