Garlic Fries in Santa Rosa

3 restaurants in Santa Rosa list garlic fries on their menus. The cheapest is Bag O' Crab at $5.95. The typical price across town is $7.25, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at Joey's Original Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.04 apart, which is 51% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 garlic fries in 6 other areas and compare them all on garlic fries across United States. The typical price there runs $8.00 at the median, so Santa Rosa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 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 San Francisco, about 49 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest garlic fries in Santa Rosa? Bag O' Crab, at $5.95 on 1901 Mendocino Avenue. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.04.

What should garlic fries cost here? About $7.25 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Santa Rosa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 San Francisco, about 49 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. That is $1.45 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.