Fried Shrimp in Providence

5 restaurants in Providence list fried shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Wise Guys Deli & Pizza at $9.99. The typical price across town is $15.45, and the dearest we found is $24.20 at Hope Street Pizza & Family Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $14.21 apart, which is 142% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track fried shrimp in 45 other areas and compare them all on fried shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so Providence is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 29 of the 45. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Picatta Pizza & Pasta in Houston, TX, and the highest best price is $21.75 in Montclair, NJ. The nearest area with it is Warwick, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest fried shrimp in Providence? Wise Guys Deli & Pizza, at $9.99 on 133 Atwells Ave. The same dish reaches $24.20 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.21.

What should fried shrimp cost here? About $15.45 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Providence that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Warwick, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $3.00 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.