Cheese Fries in Darby

4 restaurants in Darby list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is Queen of Pizza at $4.75. The typical price across town is $5.99, and the dearest we found is $7.50 at Main Street Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $2.75 apart, which is 58% 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 cheese fries in 139 other areas and compare them all on cheese fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Darby is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 134 of the 139. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at street bites in Durham, NC, and the highest best price is $10.30 in Miami Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Glenolden, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.50.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in Darby? Queen of Pizza, at $4.75 on 500 Main St. The same dish reaches $7.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.75.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $5.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Darby 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 Glenolden, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.50. That is $1.75 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.