Vegetable Samosa in Salt Lake City

3 restaurants in Salt Lake City list vegetable samosa on their menus. The cheapest is Kathmandu Grill at $4.95. The typical price across town is $6.50, and the dearest we found is $10.95 at Nutritious Bowl, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 121% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

Salt Lake City is the only area where we track vegetable samosa at the moment, so there is no other town to set these prices against yet.

Where is the cheapest vegetable samosa in Salt Lake City? Kathmandu Grill, at $4.95 on 212 South 700 East. The same dish reaches $10.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should vegetable samosa cost here? About $6.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Salt Lake City 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.

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.