Loaded Fries in Des Moines

4 restaurants in Des Moines list loaded fries on their menus. The cheapest is Zombie Burger + Bird at $5.50. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Motley School Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $11.50 apart, which is 209% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 loaded fries in 11 other areas and compare them all on loaded fries across United States. The typical price there runs $8.99 at the median, so Des Moines is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 11. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Ricota's Pizza in Buffalo, NY, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Cleveland, OH. The nearest area with it is Columbus, about 564 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest loaded fries in Des Moines? Zombie Burger + Bird, at $5.50 on 300 East Grand Avenue. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.50.

What should loaded fries cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Des Moines that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Columbus, about 564 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $2.49 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.