Salad in Roanoke

9 restaurants in Roanoke list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Emilio's Famous Pizza & Subs at $4.80, listed as Chef Salad. The typical price across town is $8.49, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Wasena City Tap Room & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $7.20 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 Roanoke is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 814 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 Salem, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.24.

Where is the cheapest salad in Roanoke? Emilio's Famous Pizza & Subs, at $4.80 on 1207 Jamison Ave SE. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.20.

What should salad cost here? About $8.49 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Roanoke that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Salem, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.24. That is $0.44 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.