Salad in Santa Rosa

13 restaurants in Santa Rosa list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Canevari's Italian Deli at $6.00, listed as Macaroni Salad. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $19.50 at Los Tres Chiles, so the two ends of the list are $13.50 apart, which is 225% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 Santa Rosa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 412 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 Vallejo, about 34 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Santa Rosa? Canevari's Italian Deli, at $6.00 on 695 Lewis Road. The same dish reaches $19.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.50.

What should salad cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Santa Rosa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Vallejo, about 34 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $0.99 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.