French Fries in Guelph

4 restaurants in Guelph list french fries on their menus. The cheapest is Symposium Cafe Restaurant Guelph at $5.95. The typical price across town is $6.99, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at Kings Sports Bar and Grill, so the two ends of the list are $3.04 apart, which is 51% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track french fries in 13 other areas and compare them all on french fries across Canada. The typical price there runs $6.99 at the median, so Guelph is about average, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at O'Sullivan's in Calgary, AB, and the highest best price is $6.95 in Regina, SK. The nearest area with it is Cambridge, about 15 km away, where the best price is $5.95.

Where is the cheapest french fries in Guelph? Symposium Cafe Restaurant Guelph, at $5.95 on 304 Stone Road West. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.04.

What should french fries cost here? About $6.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Guelph 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 Cambridge, about 15 km away, where the best price is $5.95. That is the same as 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.