Salmon in Tempe

3 restaurants in Tempe list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Zu Izakaya - Tempe at $6.50, listed as SALMON*. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $17.45 at Flower Child, so the two ends of the list are $10.95 apart, which is 168% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track salmon in 32 other areas and compare them all on salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $19.99 at the median, so Tempe is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 28 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Arashi Yama in Gainesville, FL, and the highest best price is $28.00 in Savannah, GA. The nearest area with it is Scottsdale, about 18 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Tempe? Zu Izakaya - Tempe, at $6.50 on 2210 N Scottsdale Rd. The same dish reaches $17.45 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.95.

What should salmon cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Tempe that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Scottsdale, about 18 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $1.50 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.