Grilled Salmon in Salem

4 restaurants in Salem list grilled salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Londi's Roast Beef & Pizza at $19.99. The typical price across town is $28.99, and the dearest we found is $44.00 at Finz, so the two ends of the list are $24.01 apart, which is 120% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track grilled salmon in 28 other areas and compare them all on grilled salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $24.95 at the median, so Salem is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 28. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Labi's Pizza in Allen, TX, and the highest best price is $30.95 in Great Neck, NY. The nearest area with it is Malden, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $19.99.

Where is the cheapest grilled salmon in Salem? Londi's Roast Beef & Pizza, at $19.99 on 7 Trader's Way. The same dish reaches $44.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $24.01.

What should grilled salmon cost here? About $28.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Salem that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Malden, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $19.99. That is the same as 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.