Salad in Woodstock

7 restaurants in Woodstock list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Tandoori Knight at $4.25, listed as Onion Salad. The typical price across town is $6.99, and the dearest we found is $13.99 at Montana’s BBQ & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $9.74 apart, which is 229% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge 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 49 other areas and compare them all on salad across Canada. The typical price there runs $12.50 at the median, so Woodstock is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 47 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 Brantford, about 39 km away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest salad in Woodstock? Tandoori Knight, at $4.25 on 511 Dundas St. The same dish reaches $13.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.74.

What should salad cost here? About $6.99 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Woodstock that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 Brantford, about 39 km away, where the best price is $4.50. That is $0.25 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.