French Fries in Hauppauge

5 restaurants in Hauppauge list french fries on their menus. The cheapest is The Cafe at $5.20. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $8.00 at Patrizia's of Hauppauge, so the two ends of the list are $2.80 apart, which is 54% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 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 Hauppauge is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 90 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 Smithtown, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $5.24.

Where is the cheapest french fries in Hauppauge? The Cafe, at $5.20 on 1393 Veterans Memorial Hwy. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.80.

What should french fries cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Hauppauge that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Smithtown, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $5.24. That is $0.04 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.