Side Salad in Raleigh

6 restaurants in Raleigh list side salad on their menus. The cheapest is NY Corner Pizza at $4.02. The typical price across town is $5.99, and the dearest we found is $8.00 at Jimmy V's Osteria + Bar, so the two ends of the list are $3.98 apart, which is 99% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track side salad in 27 other areas and compare them all on side salad across United States. The typical price there runs $6.00 at the median, so Raleigh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 of the 27. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Giuseppe's Cafe in Birmingham, AL, and the highest best price is $7.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Norfolk, about 153 mi away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest side salad in Raleigh? NY Corner Pizza, at $4.02 on 5609 Creedmoor Rd. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.98.

What should side salad cost here? About $5.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Raleigh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Norfolk, about 153 mi away, where the best price is $4.99. That is $0.97 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.