Salad in Ridgewood

25 restaurants in Ridgewood list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Juanito's Pizza at $5.50, listed as Tossed Salad. The typical price across town is $9.75, and the dearest we found is $21.00 at Ltauha Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $15.50 apart, which is 282% more for the same dish. Of the 25 kitchens listed, 12 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 8 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 Ridgewood is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 534 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 Maspeth, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Ridgewood? Juanito's Pizza, at $5.50 on 953 Cypress Ave. The same dish reaches $21.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.50.

What should salad cost here? About $9.75 is the typical price across the 25 kitchens in Ridgewood that list it. Of the ones listed above, 12 are more than a dollar below that and 8 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 Maspeth, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $0.50 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.