Old Bay Fries in Newark

9 restaurants in Newark list old bay fries on their menus. The cheapest is Hotspot Pizza at $4.49. The typical price across town is $5.99, and the dearest we found is $7.50 at Philly Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.01 apart, which is 67% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track old bay fries in 13 other areas and compare them all on old bay fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.20 at the median, so Newark is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 12 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Taco House & Pizza in Wilmington, DE, and the highest best price is $6.71 in Blackwood, NJ. The nearest area with it is Elkton, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.49.

Where is the cheapest old bay fries in Newark? Hotspot Pizza, at $4.49 on 1127 Churchmans Rd. The same dish reaches $7.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.01.

What should old bay fries cost here? About $5.99 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Newark that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Elkton, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.49. That is $1.00 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.