Curly Fries in Lebanon

4 restaurants in Lebanon list curly fries on their menus. The cheapest is Sharky's Pizza at $5.25. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $8.40 at Mancino's Pizza & Catering, so the two ends of the list are $3.15 apart, which is 60% 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 curly fries in 49 other areas and compare them all on curly fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.25 at the median, so Lebanon is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 30 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Papa Nick's Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $7.20 in Wildwood, NJ. The nearest area with it is Coatesville, about 38 mi away, where the best price is $5.70.

Where is the cheapest curly fries in Lebanon? Sharky's Pizza, at $5.25 on 118 S 8th St. The same dish reaches $8.40 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.15.

What should curly fries cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 4 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 Coatesville, about 38 mi away, where the best price is $5.70. That is $0.45 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.