Salad in Sault Ste. Marie

8 restaurants in Sault Ste. Marie list salad on their menus. The cheapest is SUSHI & BOBA at $4.99, listed as Seaweed Salad. The typical price across town is $6.99, and the dearest we found is $13.99 at Montana’s BBQ & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 180% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 49 other areas and compare them all on salad across Canada. The typical price there runs $12.50 at the median, so Sault Ste. Marie is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 47 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Chilliwack, BC. The nearest area with it is North Bay, about 376 km away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Sault Ste. Marie? SUSHI & BOBA, at $4.99 on 150 Churchill Blvd Unit C0-11B. The same dish reaches $13.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should salad cost here? About $6.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Sault Ste. Marie that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 North Bay, about 376 km away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $2.00 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.