Salad in West Long Branch

5 restaurants in West Long Branch list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Nelly's Grill & Pizzeria at $5.20, listed as Macaroni Salad. The typical price across town is $8.50, and the dearest we found is $10.95 at Brother's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.75 apart, which is 111% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 West Long Branch is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 787 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 Long Branch, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in West Long Branch? Nelly's Grill & Pizzeria, at $5.20 on 589 Cedar Ave. The same dish reaches $10.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.75.

What should salad cost here? About $8.50 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in West Long Branch 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 Long Branch, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $0.80 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.