French Fries in Elgin

3 restaurants in Elgin list french fries on their menus. The cheapest is White Cottage Pizzeria - Elgin at $4.50. The typical price across town is $6.99, and the dearest we found is $6.99 at Rookey's Sports Bar, so the two ends of the list are $2.49 apart, which is 55% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track french fries in 498 other areas and compare them all on french fries across United States. The typical price there runs $6.49 at the median, so Elgin is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 119 of the 498. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Big Tony's Pizza II in Chicago, IL, and the highest best price is $7.50 in Seaford, NY. The nearest area with it is Addison, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest french fries in Elgin? White Cottage Pizzeria - Elgin, at $4.50 on 280 S Randall Rd. The same dish reaches $6.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.49.

What should french fries cost here? About $6.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Elgin that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Addison, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $5.00. That is $0.50 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.