Mega Fries in Philadelphia

83 restaurants in Philadelphia list mega fries on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Pizza Roma at $6.10. The typical price across town is $9.75, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $9.55 at Ozzy's Pizza II, so the two ends of the list are $3.45 apart, which is 57% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 26 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 14 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mega fries in 24 other areas and compare them all on mega fries across United States. The typical price there runs $10.49 at the median, so Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 20 of the 24. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Original Dominick's Pizzeria & Italian Grill in Trenton, NJ, and the highest best price is $10.99 in Chicopee, MA. The nearest area with it is Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.50.

Where is the cheapest mega fries in Philadelphia? Pizza Roma, at $6.10 on 7300 Bustleton Ave. The same dish reaches $9.55 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.45.

What should mega fries cost here? About $9.75 is the typical price across the 83 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 26 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.50. That is $1.40 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.