Side Salad in Sterling

3 restaurants in Sterling list side salad on their menus. The cheapest is Rai's Pizza at $4.99. The typical price across town is $6.04, and the dearest we found is $6.95 at Pomodoro Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $1.96 apart, which is 39% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track side salad in 28 other areas and compare them all on side salad across United States. The typical price there runs $6.00 at the median, so Sterling is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 12 of the 28. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Giuseppe's Cafe in Birmingham, AL, and the highest best price is $7.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Chambersburg, about 65 mi away, where the best price is $4.75.

Where is the cheapest side salad in Sterling? Rai's Pizza, at $4.99 on 21430 Cedar Dr. The same dish reaches $6.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.96.

What should side salad cost here? About $6.04 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Sterling that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Chambersburg, about 65 mi away, where the best price is $4.75. That is $0.24 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.