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What does Main-course salad cost at lunch?

Main-course salad at lunch in Switzerland - median of restaurant medians

CHF 22.00

Middle half of restaurants: CHF 18.50 to CHF 24.00 · 239 restaurants · Last 30 days · as of 30 October 2026

Main-course salad typically costs CHF 22.00 on a Swiss lunch menu. 239 restaurants served it at lunch at least once in the period - 17% of all restaurants with a lunch menu.

Restaurants serving it

17%

239 of 1'370 restaurants with a lunch menu

À la carte (median)

CHF 24.50

menus of 106 restaurants

Lunch discount

+CHF 0.00

à la carte minus lunch, same restaurant · 22 restaurants, the card is dearer at 45%

Main-course salad by city

Cities with at least 10 restaurants serving Main-course salad at lunch, ranked by median. The vertical line is the Swiss median.

Last 30 days · as of 30 October 2026

CityPrice range (CHF)MedianRestaurants
1 Zürich Zürich: Median 22.50, p25-p75 18.75-25.00, 95% CI 20.00-24.00, n=59 CHF 22.50 59
2 Basel Basel: Median 22.50, p25-p75 17.25-24.75, 95% CI 16.75-25.00, n=15 CHF 22.50 15
3 Lausanne Lausanne: Median 21.00, p25-p75 19.75-22.75, 95% CI 19.50-23.00, n=11 CHF 21.00 11
4 Bern Bern: Median 20.50, p25-p75 17.63-21.88, 95% CI 16.50-23.00, n=10 CHF 20.50 10

By language region

Median price of Main-course salad - German-speaking: CHF 22.50 · French-speaking: CHF 20.00. Regions from 20 restaurants.

RegionPrice range (CHF)MedianRestaurants
German-speaking German-speaking: Median 22.50, p25-p75 18.50-24.00, 95% CI 21.00-22.50, n=201 CHF 22.50 201
French-speaking French-speaking: Median 20.00, p25-p75 19.00-23.00, 95% CI 20.00-22.50, n=33 CHF 20.00 33

À la carte and the lunch discount

On the à-la-carte menus, Main-course salad costs CHF 24.50 (median); the middle half lies between CHF 22.50 and CHF 27.00 (106 restaurants).

22 restaurants serve Main-course salad both at lunch and à la carte. There it costs CHF 23.15 at lunch (median) and CHF 23.70 à la carte; within the same restaurant the median difference is +CHF 0.00. The card is dearer at 45% of these restaurants. The comparison is the same dish type, not necessarily the identical dish.

Table: lunch and à la carte at the same restaurant
MeasureValue
Restaurants with a lunch and a card price22
Lunch (median)CHF 23.15
À la carte (median)CHF 23.70
Difference at the same restaurant (median)+CHF 0.00
Difference, middle halfCHF 0.00 – CHF 2.00
Card dearer45%

All dishes in the lunch dish index

Methodology

Lunch prices: published lunch menus of the last 30 days, verified restaurants in Switzerland only, CHF 10 to 100. A main counts as Main-course salad when our proprietary classification system unambiguously classifies it so; buffets and dishes without a real name are excluded. Each restaurant counts once, with the median of its prices for the dish; the Swiss value is the median of those restaurant values.

Cities appear from 10 restaurants, language regions from 20; the region follows the restaurant's postcode. The statistic only renders when at least 95% of the period's mains are classified; the dish itself needs at least 50 restaurants.

À-la-carte prices come from the currently published menus (mains, priced per dish, CHF). The lunch discount compares, within the same restaurant, the median card price with the median lunch price for the same dish type, and is shown from 20 such restaurants. The card price may be an evening price and the portion larger; conversely the lunch menu often includes soup or salad.

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