Sweet Potato Fries in Winnipeg

4 restaurants in Winnipeg list sweet potato fries on their menus. The cheapest is State & Main at $6.00. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at L'Avant Match Pregame Sport Bar & Lounge, so the two ends of the list are $6.99 apart, which is 116% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track sweet potato fries in 24 other areas and compare them all on sweet potato fries across Canada. The typical price there runs $8.50 at the median, so Winnipeg is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 24. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.00 in Regina, SK. The nearest area with it is Regina, about 548 km away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest sweet potato fries in Winnipeg? State & Main, at $6.00 on 655 Empress Street. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.99.

What should sweet potato fries cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Winnipeg that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Regina, about 548 km away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $2.00 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.