Salad in Sacramento

27 restaurants in Sacramento list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Sacramento Pizzas & Subs at $4.99, listed as Garden Salad. The typical price across town is $8.95, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Scott's Seafood & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $13.01 apart, which is 261% more for the same dish. Of the 27 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 13 sit within a dollar of it and 7 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 Sacramento is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 729 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 Rancho Cordova, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $5.50.

Where is the cheapest salad in Sacramento? Sacramento Pizzas & Subs, at $4.99 on 5240 Fruitridge Road. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.01.

What should salad cost here? About $8.95 is the typical price across the 27 kitchens in Sacramento that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 Rancho Cordova, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $5.50. That is $0.51 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.