Cheese Fries in Wilmington

14 restaurants in Wilmington list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is Krispy Krunchy Chicken & Star Pizza at $4.99. The typical price across town is $6.90, and the dearest we found is $9.50 at Cavanaugh's Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $4.51 apart, which is 90% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheese fries in 138 other areas and compare them all on cheese fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.97 at the median, so Wilmington is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 117 of the 138. 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 New Castle, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.50.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in Wilmington? Krispy Krunchy Chicken & Star Pizza, at $4.99 on 3000 N Market St. The same dish reaches $9.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.51.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $6.90 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Wilmington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 New Castle, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.50. That is $0.51 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.