Sweet Potato Fries in Patchogue

4 restaurants in Patchogue list sweet potato fries on their menus. The cheapest is Buttermilk’s Farmhouse at $5.50. The typical price across town is $10.00, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Drift 82, so the two ends of the list are $6.50 apart, which is 118% 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 sweet potato fries in 71 other areas and compare them all on sweet potato fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.00 at the median, so Patchogue is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 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 Norwalk, about 32 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest sweet potato fries in Patchogue? Buttermilk’s Farmhouse, at $5.50 on 76 W Main St. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.50.

What should sweet potato fries cost here? About $10.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Patchogue 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 Norwalk, about 32 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $0.50 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.