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The Most Overpriced Restaurant Chain Salads, According To Customers By Joe Thristino Nov. 4, 2025 10:40 am EST

Salads as a meal go as far back as the ancient Mesopotamians. The first chain restaurants appeared around the early 20th century. In other words, the pairing — salads and chains — was a long time in the making.

Starting from the first chain restaurant salad bar – believed to be Steak & Ale back in 1960 — to entree salads becoming a menu staple for the likes of TGI Friday's and Applebee's, to the current crowded landscape of fast-casual salad-centric franchises, chain salad offerings have evolved in both expectation and price. Much of these rising retail costs have been tolerated by the lettuce-forward public, even affirmed. But, inevitably, there are those

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