Cheese Fries in Tampa

7 restaurants in Tampa list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is Bella Roma pizza at $4.99. The typical price across town is $6.49, and the dearest we found is $9.95 at Brooklyn Pizza Pasta N Grill, so the two ends of the list are $4.96 apart, which is 99% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Tampa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 126 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 Orlando, about 77 mi away, where the best price is $5.95.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in Tampa? Bella Roma pizza, at $4.99 on 500 S Howard Ave. The same dish reaches $9.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.96.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $6.49 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Tampa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Orlando, about 77 mi away, where the best price is $5.95. That is $0.96 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.