Salad in Pittsburgh

80 restaurants in Pittsburgh list salad on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Pietro's Pizzeria at $4.99, listed as Tossed Salad. The typical price across town is $9.49, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $9.49 at Genoa Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.50 apart, which is 90% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 31 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 0 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 Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 577 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 Carnegie, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Pittsburgh? Pietro's Pizzeria, at $4.99 on 719 W Ingomar Rd. The same dish reaches $9.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.50.

What should salad cost here? About $9.49 is the typical price across the 80 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 31 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Carnegie, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $2.00 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.