Garlic Fries in Oakland

3 restaurants in Oakland list garlic fries on their menus. The cheapest is Razzo's Pizza at $4.50. The typical price across town is $7.80, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at Edible Happy Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $4.49 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 garlic fries in 6 other areas and compare them all on garlic fries across United States. The typical price there runs $8.00 at the median, so Oakland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Razzo's Pizza & Salads in Hayward, CA, and the highest best price is $6.99 in San Jose, CA. The nearest area with it is San Francisco, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest garlic fries in Oakland? Razzo's Pizza, at $4.50 on 4312 MacArthur Blvd. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.49.

What should garlic fries cost here? About $7.80 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Oakland 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 San Francisco, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. That is the same as 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.