Salad in Waltham

19 restaurants in Waltham list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Ponzu Izakaya at $4.95, listed as House Salad. The typical price across town is $10.50, and the dearest we found is $17.95 at Margaritas, so the two ends of the list are $13.00 apart, which is 263% more for the same dish. Of the 19 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 6 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 Waltham is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 290 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 Watertown, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Waltham? Ponzu Izakaya, at $4.95 on 286 Moody Street. The same dish reaches $17.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.00.

What should salad cost here? About $10.50 is the typical price across the 19 kitchens in Waltham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Watertown, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $2.04 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.