Truffle Fries in Saskatoon

4 restaurants in Saskatoon list truffle fries on their menus. The cheapest is Cactus Club Cafe Idylwyld Drive at $9.00. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at The Thirsty Scholar, so the two ends of the list are $6.99 apart, which is 78% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track truffle fries in 3 other areas and compare them all on truffle fries across Canada. The typical price there runs $13.75 at the median, so Saskatoon is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.50 at CAFE LANDWER in Toronto, ON, and the highest best price is $9.00 in Kelowna, BC. The nearest area with it is Kelowna, about 929 km away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest truffle fries in Saskatoon? Cactus Club Cafe Idylwyld Drive, at $9.00 on 140 Idylwyld Drive South. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.99.

What should truffle fries cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Saskatoon that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Kelowna, about 929 km away, where the best price is $9.00. 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.