Fries in Cleveland

4 restaurants in Cleveland list fries on their menus. The cheapest is Woodland One Stop Pizza at $4.00. The typical price across town is $5.39, and the dearest we found is $5.99 at Pizza Fan, so the two ends of the list are $1.99 apart, which is 50% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge 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 $7.00 at the median, so Cleveland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 21 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 Detroit, about 95 mi away, where the best price is $4.00.

Where is the cheapest fries in Cleveland? Woodland One Stop Pizza, at $4.00 on 5615 Woodland Ave. The same dish reaches $5.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.99.

What should fries cost here? About $5.39 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Cleveland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Detroit, about 95 mi away, where the best price is $4.00. 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.