Garlic Fries in San Francisco

23 restaurants in San Francisco list garlic fries on their menus. The cheapest is Pizzalicious at $4.50. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $14.50 at Bernal Heights Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $10.00 apart, which is 222% more for the same dish. Of the 23 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 7 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic fries in 6 other areas and compare them all on garlic fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.80 at the median, so San Francisco is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Razzo's Pizza & Salads in Hayward, CA, and the highest best price is $6.99 in San Jose, CA. The nearest area with it is Oakland, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest garlic fries in San Francisco? Pizzalicious, at $4.50 on 417 Castro St. The same dish reaches $14.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.00.

What should garlic fries cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 23 kitchens in San Francisco that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 Oakland, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. 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.