Loaded Fries in Reading

8 restaurants in Reading list loaded fries on their menus. The cheapest is Little Sicily at $6.99. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Rocky's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.01 apart, which is 72% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track loaded fries in 11 other areas and compare them all on loaded fries across United States. The typical price there runs $9.60 at the median, so Reading is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 11. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Zombie Burger + Bird in Des Moines, IA, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Cleveland, OH. The nearest area with it is Coatesville, about 23 mi away, where the best price is $7.80.

Where is the cheapest loaded fries in Reading? Little Sicily, at $6.99 on 100 Love Rd Ste. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.01.

What should loaded fries cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Reading that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Coatesville, about 23 mi away, where the best price is $7.80. That is $0.81 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.