Cheese Fries in Pittsburgh

16 restaurants in Pittsburgh list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is Hook's Pizza at $4.49. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $12.10 at Florence Pizza and Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $7.61 apart, which is 169% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheese fries in 139 other areas and compare them all on cheese fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Pittsburgh is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 49 of the 139. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at street bites in Durham, NC, and the highest best price is $10.30 in Miami Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Chambersburg, about 129 mi away, where the best price is $5.95.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in Pittsburgh? Hook's Pizza, at $4.49 on 6960 5th Ave. The same dish reaches $12.10 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.61.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 16 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are 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 Chambersburg, about 129 mi away, where the best price is $5.95. That is $1.46 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.