Onion Rings in Bear

3 restaurants in Bear list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is FRY'N PIE at $4.99. The typical price across town is $5.99, and the dearest we found is $11.99 at Roma's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 140% 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 onion rings in 502 other areas and compare them all on onion rings across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Bear is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 477 of the 502. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Lucky's Burger and Brews in Marietta, GA, and the highest best price is $11.00 in Bellevue, WA. The nearest area with it is Newark, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.59.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Bear? FRY'N PIE, at $4.99 on 488 Bear Christiana Rd. The same dish reaches $11.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should onion rings cost here? About $5.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Bear 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 Newark, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.59. That is $0.60 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.