Salad in Port St. Lucie

14 restaurants in Port St. Lucie list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Bella Roma Bakery & Pizzeria at $5.99, listed as House Salad. The typical price across town is $8.80, and the dearest we found is $14.99 at Da Vinci's Italian Grill, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 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 Port St. Lucie is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 772 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 Jensen Beach, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Port St. Lucie? Bella Roma Bakery & Pizzeria, at $5.99 on 475 Riomar Dr. The same dish reaches $14.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should salad cost here? About $8.80 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Port St. Lucie that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 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 Jensen Beach, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $0.01 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.