Mozzarella Fries in Philadelphia

69 restaurants in Philadelphia list mozzarella fries on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Don Giovanni's II at $4.55. The typical price across town is $7.85, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $7.99 at South Side Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.44 apart, which is 76% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 16 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 24 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella fries in 3 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella fries across United States. The typical price there runs $8.05 at the median, so Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.75 at HG Bucks Bagels & Coal-Fired Pizza in Warminster, PA, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Norristown, PA. The nearest area with it is Norristown, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella fries in Philadelphia? Don Giovanni's II, at $4.55 on 2900 Levick St. The same dish reaches $7.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.44.

What should mozzarella fries cost here? About $7.85 is the typical price across the 69 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 16 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 Norristown, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $3.44 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.