Buffalo Fries in Pittsburgh

16 restaurants in Pittsburgh list buffalo fries on their menus. The cheapest is Bambino's Pizza at $4.99. The typical price across town is $7.29, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Pizza Bosa, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track buffalo fries in 3 other areas and compare them all on buffalo fries across United States. The typical price there runs $8.19 at the median, so Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.20 at Pizza Roma in Quakertown, PA, and the highest best price is $7.59 in Bellmawr, NJ. The nearest area with it is Lititz, about 195 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest buffalo fries in Pittsburgh? Bambino's Pizza, at $4.99 on 2928 W Liberty Ave. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should buffalo fries cost here? About $7.29 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 4 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 Lititz, about 195 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $2.00 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.