French Toast in Minneapolis

4 restaurants in Minneapolis list french toast on their menus. The cheapest is Denny's at $4.80. The typical price across town is $12.50, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Lake & Irving, so the two ends of the list are $12.20 apart, which is 254% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 french toast in 6 other areas and compare them all on french toast across United States. The typical price there runs $11.50 at the median, so Minneapolis is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Burnt End BBQ in Kansas City, MO, and the highest best price is $11.95 in Santa Fe, NM. The nearest area with it is Sioux Falls, about 198 mi away, where the best price is $5.19.

Where is the cheapest french toast in Minneapolis? Denny's, at $4.80 on 6405 James Circle North. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.20.

What should french toast cost here? About $12.50 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Minneapolis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Sioux Falls, about 198 mi away, where the best price is $5.19. That is $0.39 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.