Salad in South Plainfield

7 restaurants in South Plainfield list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Sherban's Diner at $4.95, listed as Tossed Salad. The typical price across town is $6.50, and the dearest we found is $9.00 at Villa Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.05 apart, which is 82% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 1106 other areas and compare them all on salad across United States. The typical price there runs $9.54 at the median, so South Plainfield is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1076 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 Piscataway, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.30.

Where is the cheapest salad in South Plainfield? Sherban's Diner, at $4.95 on 222 Front Street. The same dish reaches $9.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.05.

What should salad cost here? About $6.50 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in South Plainfield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Piscataway, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.30. That is $1.35 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.