Pizza Fries in Philadelphia

87 restaurants in Philadelphia list pizza fries on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Pizza Roma at $4.00. The typical price across town is $8.10, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $7.90 at West Philly Pizza & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $3.90 apart, which is 98% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 25 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 15 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza fries in 92 other areas and compare them all on pizza fries across United States. The typical price there runs $8.50 at the median, so Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 56 of the 92. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Cafe Antonio's in Morrisville, PA, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Camp Hill, PA. The nearest area with it is Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $6.50.

Where is the cheapest pizza fries in Philadelphia? Pizza Roma, at $4.00 on 7300 Bustleton Ave. The same dish reaches $7.90 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.90.

What should pizza fries cost here? About $8.10 is the typical price across the 87 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 25 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 $6.50. That is $2.50 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.