Cheese Fries in West Long Branch

3 restaurants in West Long Branch list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is La Scarpetta Italian Restaurant at $6.50. The typical price across town is $7.50, and the dearest we found is $9.35 at Nelly's Grill & Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $2.85 apart, which is 44% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 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 West Long Branch is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 81 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 Freehold, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $6.50.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in West Long Branch? La Scarpetta Italian Restaurant, at $6.50 on 167 Locust Ave. The same dish reaches $9.35 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.85.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $7.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in West Long Branch that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 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 Freehold, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $6.50. 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.