Fries in Beach Haven

3 restaurants in Beach Haven list fries on their menus. The cheapest is Uncle Will's at $4.50. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at Parker's Garage & Oyster Saloon, so the two ends of the list are $5.50 apart, which is 122% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track fries in 21 other areas and compare them all on fries across United States. The typical price there runs $6.95 at the median, so Beach Haven is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 21. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Mildred's Big City Food in Gainesville, FL, and the highest best price is $6.99 in Morgantown, WV. The nearest area with it is West Chester, about 76 mi away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest fries in Beach Haven? Uncle Will's, at $4.50 on 3 S Bay Ave. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.50.

What should fries cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Beach Haven that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 West Chester, about 76 mi away, where the best price is $5.00. That is $0.50 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.