Western Fries in Essex

3 restaurants in Essex list western fries on their menus. The cheapest is Five Star Pizza & Rice at $5.25. The typical price across town is $6.99, and the dearest we found is $7.99 at Prima Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $2.74 apart, which is 52% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track western fries in 5 other areas and compare them all on western fries across United States. The typical price there runs $6.99 at the median, so Essex is about average, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 5. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Massey's Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $5.99 in Reisterstown, MD. The nearest area with it is Nottingham, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest western fries in Essex? Five Star Pizza & Rice, at $5.25 on 3 Margaret Ave. The same dish reaches $7.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.74.

What should western fries cost here? About $6.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Essex that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Nottingham, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is $0.74 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.