Cheese Fries in Saugus

3 restaurants in Saugus list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is Saugus House of Pizza at $6.00. The typical price across town is $9.50, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Hometown Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.99 apart, which is 66% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 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 Saugus is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 7 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 Boston, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in Saugus? Saugus House of Pizza, at $6.00 on 312 Central St. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.99.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $9.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Saugus 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 Boston, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $2.50 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.