Loaded Fries in Columbus

5 restaurants in Columbus list loaded fries on their menus. The cheapest is Castello Pizza 2 at $7.99. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at The O On Lane, so the two ends of the list are $4.01 apart, which is 50% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track loaded fries in 11 other areas and compare them all on loaded fries across United States. The typical price there runs $9.60 at the median, so Columbus is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 11. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Zombie Burger + Bird in Des Moines, IA, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Cleveland, OH. The nearest area with it is Cleveland, about 124 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest loaded fries in Columbus? Castello Pizza 2, at $7.99 on 2070 Leonard Ave. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.01.

What should loaded fries cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Columbus that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Cleveland, about 124 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $2.00 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.