Cheese Fries in Portsmouth

4 restaurants in Portsmouth list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is Americas Greatest Wings Gyro & Pizza at $4.99. The typical price across town is $6.95, and the dearest we found is $8.69 at Sal's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.70 apart, which is 74% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Portsmouth is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 113 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 Norfolk, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in Portsmouth? Americas Greatest Wings Gyro & Pizza, at $4.99 on 5811 W Norfolk Rd. The same dish reaches $8.69 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.70.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $6.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Portsmouth that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Norfolk, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $4.99. That is the same as 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.