Salad in Portland

11 restaurants in Portland list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Portland Pie Company at $5.99, listed as GARDEN SALAD. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Via Vecchia, so the two ends of the list are $11.01 apart, which is 184% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 5 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 Portland is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 67 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 Lewiston, about 32 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Portland? Portland Pie Company, at $5.99 on 51 York Street. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.01.

What should salad cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Portland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Lewiston, about 32 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.