Salad in Rahway

8 restaurants in Rahway list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Michelino's Pizzaria at $6.50, listed as Tossed Salad. The typical price across town is $7.71, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Il Forno A Legna, so the two ends of the list are $5.50 apart, which is 85% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 Rahway is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 972 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 Clark, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.15.

Where is the cheapest salad in Rahway? Michelino's Pizzaria, at $6.50 on 79 East Milton Avenue. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.50.

What should salad cost here? About $7.71 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Rahway that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Clark, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.15. That is $0.65 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.