French Fries in Cambridge

4 restaurants in Cambridge list french fries on their menus. The cheapest is Symposium Cafe Restaurant Cambridge at $5.95. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at La Fabrica Central, so the two ends of the list are $4.05 apart, which is 68% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track french fries in 13 other areas and compare them all on french fries across Canada. The typical price there runs $6.99 at the median, so Cambridge is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at O'Sullivan's in Calgary, AB, and the highest best price is $6.95 in Regina, SK. The nearest area with it is Guelph, about 15 km away, where the best price is $5.95.

Where is the cheapest french fries in Cambridge? Symposium Cafe Restaurant Cambridge, at $5.95 on 500 Can-Amera Parkway. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.05.

What should french fries cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Cambridge 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 Guelph, about 15 km away, where the best price is $5.95. That is the same as 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.