Cheesy Fries in Providence

4 restaurants in Providence list cheesy fries on their menus. The cheapest is New England Pizza at $6.99. The typical price across town is $8.75, and the dearest we found is $9.95 at Meeting Street Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $2.96 apart, which is 42% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track cheesy fries in 3 other areas and compare them all on cheesy fries across United States. The typical price there runs $9.10 at the median, so Providence is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.49 at New York Pizza & Subs in Daytona Beach, FL, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Brockton, about 28 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest cheesy fries in Providence? New England Pizza, at $6.99 on 451 Manton Ave. The same dish reaches $9.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.96.

What should cheesy fries cost here? About $8.75 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Providence that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Brockton, about 28 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $1.00 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.