Sweet Potato Fries in Minneapolis

5 restaurants in Minneapolis list sweet potato fries on their menus. The cheapest is Hazel's Northeast at $4.50. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $8.76 at Basil, so the two ends of the list are $4.26 apart, which is 95% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 sweet potato fries in 71 other areas and compare them all on sweet potato fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.25 at the median, so Minneapolis is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 36 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 Edina, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest sweet potato fries in Minneapolis? Hazel's Northeast, at $4.50 on 2859 Northeast Johnson Street. The same dish reaches $8.76 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.26.

What should sweet potato fries cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 5 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 Edina, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $3.50 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.