Cheese Fries in Wilkes-Barre

5 restaurants in Wilkes-Barre list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is Whatinthe Sam Hill's Brick Oven Pizza at $4.06. The typical price across town is $5.95, and the dearest we found is $7.99 at C J's Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $3.93 apart, which is 97% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 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 Wilkes-Barre is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 136 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 Dallas, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $4.75.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in Wilkes-Barre? Whatinthe Sam Hill's Brick Oven Pizza, at $4.06 on 100 George Ave. The same dish reaches $7.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.93.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $5.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Wilkes-Barre that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Dallas, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $4.75. That is $0.69 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.