Salad in Worcester

41 restaurants in Worcester list salad on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is STOP Cafe Pizza & Grille at $6.49, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $10.50, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $14.99 at Palace Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.50 apart, which is 131% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 15 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 13 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 Worcester is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 289 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 Holden, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $9.95.

Where is the cheapest salad in Worcester? STOP Cafe Pizza & Grille, at $6.49 on 255 Park Ave. The same dish reaches $14.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.50.

What should salad cost here? About $10.50 is the typical price across the 41 kitchens in Worcester that list it. Of the ones listed above, 15 are more than a dollar below that and 13 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 Holden, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $9.95. That is $3.46 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.