Cheese Fries in Reading

11 restaurants in Reading list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is Pizzariffic at $4.99. The typical price across town is $6.50, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Sophia's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 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 Reading is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 119 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 Boyertown, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $6.15.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in Reading? Pizzariffic, at $4.99 on 3201 Pottsville Pike. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $6.50 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Reading 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 Boyertown, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $6.15. That is $1.16 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.