Salad in Syracuse

27 restaurants in Syracuse list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Ocean Bites at $4.32, listed as Macaroni Salad. The typical price across town is $9.89, and the dearest we found is $17.50 at Mona Lisa's Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $13.18 apart, which is 305% more for the same dish. Of the 27 kitchens listed, 12 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 9 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 $9.50 at the median, so Syracuse is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 525 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 Cortland, about 31 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Syracuse? Ocean Bites, at $4.32 on 201 Wolf St. The same dish reaches $17.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.18.

What should salad cost here? About $9.89 is the typical price across the 27 kitchens in Syracuse that list it. Of the ones listed above, 12 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 Cortland, about 31 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $5.67 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.