Salad in Roselle

5 restaurants in Roselle list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Cousins Pizza Pub at $5.50, listed as Dinner Salad. The typical price across town is $9.79, and the dearest we found is $13.99 at Sweet Orange Pancake House & Café, so the two ends of the list are $8.49 apart, which is 154% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 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 Roselle is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 527 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 Elk Grove Village, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.97.

Where is the cheapest salad in Roselle? Cousins Pizza Pub, at $5.50 on 966 W Lake St. The same dish reaches $13.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.49.

What should salad cost here? About $9.79 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Roselle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Elk Grove Village, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.97. That is $2.47 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.