Cajun Fries in Lowell

3 restaurants in Lowell list cajun fries on their menus. The cheapest is Sandwich King at $5.00. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $9.00 at Brickhouse Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 80% 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 cajun fries in 4 other areas and compare them all on cajun fries across United States. The typical price there runs $8.99 at the median, so Lowell is about average, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.25 at Schoolhouse Pizza in Quincy, MA, and the highest best price is $6.99 in Dracut, MA. The nearest area with it is Dracut, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest cajun fries in Lowell? Sandwich King, at $5.00 on 361 Bridge St. The same dish reaches $9.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should cajun fries cost here? About $8.99 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 $1.99 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.