Salad in Sunnyvale

14 restaurants in Sunnyvale list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Siam Taste at $6.00, listed as CUCUMBER SALAD. The typical price across town is $10.39, and the dearest we found is $15.50 at Metro City Restaurant and Bar, so the two ends of the list are $9.50 apart, which is 158% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 5 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 Sunnyvale is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 320 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 Santa Clara, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Sunnyvale? Siam Taste, at $6.00 on 172 South Murphy Avenue. The same dish reaches $15.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.50.

What should salad cost here? About $10.39 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Sunnyvale that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Santa Clara, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is the same as 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.