Old Bay Fries in Wilmington

7 restaurants in Wilmington list old bay fries on their menus. The cheapest is Taco House & Pizza at $4.50. The typical price across town is $6.00, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at Roma's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.49 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track old bay fries in 13 other areas and compare them all on old bay fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.20 at the median, so Wilmington is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 11 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Hotspot Pizza in Newark, DE, and the highest best price is $6.71 in Blackwood, NJ. The nearest area with it is Marcus Hook, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $5.19.

Where is the cheapest old bay fries in Wilmington? Taco House & Pizza, at $4.50 on 1727 W 4th St. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.49.

What should old bay fries cost here? About $6.00 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Wilmington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Marcus Hook, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $5.19. 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.