Cheese Fries in Lebanon

3 restaurants in Lebanon list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is Sharky's Pizza at $5.00. The typical price across town is $7.50, and the dearest we found is $10.99 at Big Daddy's Ribs & Wings, so the two ends of the list are $5.99 apart, which is 120% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track cheese fries in 139 other areas and compare them all on cheese fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Lebanon is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 81 of the 139. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at street bites in Durham, NC, and the highest best price is $10.30 in Miami Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Palmyra, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in Lebanon? Sharky's Pizza, at $5.00 on 118 S 8th St. The same dish reaches $10.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.99.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $7.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Lebanon 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 Palmyra, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.00 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.