Salmon in Santa Cruz

3 restaurants in Santa Cruz list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Shogun Japanese Restaurant at $11.95. The typical price across town is $22.95, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at The Point Kitchen and Bar, so the two ends of the list are $13.05 apart, which is 109% 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 salmon in 32 other areas and compare them all on salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $18.00 at the median, so Santa Cruz is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 9 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Arashi Yama in Gainesville, FL, and the highest best price is $28.00 in Savannah, GA. The nearest area with it is Orange, about 322 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Santa Cruz? Shogun Japanese Restaurant, at $11.95. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.05.

What should salmon cost here? About $22.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Santa Cruz 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 Orange, about 322 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. That is $2.05 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.