French Fries in Elizabeth

9 restaurants in Elizabeth list french fries on their menus. The cheapest is Queen's Pizza, Wings, Burger Halal at $4.59. The typical price across town is $6.75, and the dearest we found is $7.60 at Mario's Famous Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.01 apart, which is 66% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit 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 Elizabeth is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 189 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 Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.95.

Where is the cheapest french fries in Elizabeth? Queen's Pizza, Wings, Burger Halal, at $4.59 on 74 Broad St. The same dish reaches $7.60 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.01.

What should french fries cost here? About $6.75 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Elizabeth that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.95. That is $0.36 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.