French Fries in Emmaus

5 restaurants in Emmaus list french fries on their menus. The cheapest is Capo & Co at $4.00. The typical price across town is $5.15, and the dearest we found is $7.99 at Papa Rossi's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $3.99 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track french fries in 500 other areas and compare them all on french fries across United States. The typical price there runs $6.49 at the median, so Emmaus is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 481 of the 500. 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 Coopersburg, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.50.

Where is the cheapest french fries in Emmaus? Capo & Co, at $4.00 on 1375 Chestnut St. The same dish reaches $7.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.99.

What should french fries cost here? About $5.15 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Emmaus 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 Coopersburg, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.50. That is $1.50 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.