French Fries in Lowell

8 restaurants in Lowell list french fries on their menus. The cheapest is Sandwich King at $4.50. The typical price across town is $6.25, and the dearest we found is $8.00 at Brickhouse Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.50 apart, which is 78% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track french fries in 500 other areas and compare them all on french fries across United States. The typical price there runs $6.49 at the median, so Lowell is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 271 of the 500. 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 Dracut, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest french fries in Lowell? Sandwich King, at $4.50 on 361 Bridge St. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.50.

What should french fries cost here? About $6.25 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Lowell that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Dracut, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.50 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.