Sweet Potato Fries in Ottawa

5 restaurants in Ottawa list sweet potato fries on their menus. The cheapest is Kelseys Original Roadhouse at $4.98. The typical price across town is $6.00, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Banditos, so the two ends of the list are $7.02 apart, which is 141% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track sweet potato fries in 24 other areas and compare them all on sweet potato fries across Canada. The typical price there runs $8.95 at the median, so Ottawa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 22 of the 24. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.00 in Regina, SK. The nearest area with it is Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $4.98.

Where is the cheapest sweet potato fries in Ottawa? Kelseys Original Roadhouse, at $4.98 on 2206 Bank St. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.02.

What should sweet potato fries cost here? About $6.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $4.98. 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.