Salad in San Bruno

3 restaurants in San Bruno list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Seniore's Pizza at $6.89, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $11.50 at Toto's Pizzeria & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $4.61 apart, which is 67% 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.

We track salad in 1106 other areas and compare them all on salad across United States. The typical price there runs $9.54 at the median, so San Bruno is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 884 of the 1106. 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 Daly City, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in San Bruno? Seniore's Pizza, at $6.89 on 730 Kains Ave. The same dish reaches $11.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.61.

What should salad cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in San Bruno 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 Daly City, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $0.11 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.