Salad in Winnipeg

21 restaurants in Winnipeg list salad on their menus. The cheapest is State & Main at $5.50, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $26.75 at Earls Polo Park, so the two ends of the list are $21.25 apart, which is 386% more for the same dish. Of the 21 kitchens listed, 9 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 49 other areas and compare them all on salad across Canada. The typical price there runs $11.95 at the median, so Winnipeg is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 9 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Chilliwack, BC. The nearest area with it is Regina, about 548 km away, where the best price is $7.95.

Where is the cheapest salad in Winnipeg? State & Main, at $5.50 on 655 Empress Street. The same dish reaches $26.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $21.25.

What should salad cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 21 kitchens in Winnipeg that list it. Of the ones listed above, 9 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 Regina, about 548 km away, where the best price is $7.95. That is $2.45 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.