Sweet Potato Fries in Lowell

3 restaurants in Lowell list sweet potato fries on their menus. The cheapest is Rizzo's Roast Beef & Pizza at $5.75. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Brando's Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $4.24 apart, which is 74% 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 sweet potato fries in 71 other areas and compare them all on sweet potato fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.00 at the median, so Lowell is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 71. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Tavern in the Square in Woburn, MA, and the highest best price is $8.00 in Edina, MN. The nearest area with it is Dracut, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest sweet potato fries in Lowell? Rizzo's Roast Beef & Pizza, at $5.75 on 131 E Merrimack St. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.24.

What should sweet potato fries cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Lowell 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 Dracut, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $1.24 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.