Fries in Hamilton

3 restaurants in Hamilton list fries on their menus. The cheapest is Gennaro's Italian Restaurant & Tomato Pies at $5.00. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at Aberdeen Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 100% 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 fries in 3 other areas and compare them all on fries across Canada. The typical price there runs $7.00 at the median, so Hamilton is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Blanco Cantina in Saskatoon, SK, and the highest best price is $5.00 in Edmonton, AB. The nearest area with it is Ottawa, about 393 km away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest fries in Hamilton? Gennaro's Italian Restaurant & Tomato Pies, at $5.00 on 4613 Nottingham Way. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should fries cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Hamilton 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 Ottawa, about 393 km away, where the best price is $5.00. 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.