Onion Rings in Brookline

3 restaurants in Brookline list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Village Pizza House at $6.49. The typical price across town is $7.90, and the dearest we found is $7.99 at Ziggy Bombs Specialty Steak & Cheese Subs, so the two ends of the list are $1.50 apart, which is 23% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 onion rings in 500 other areas and compare them all on onion rings across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Brookline is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 258 of the 500. 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 Brighton, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Brookline? Village Pizza House, at $6.49 on 312 Washington St. The same dish reaches $7.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.50.

What should onion rings cost here? About $7.90 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Brookline that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Brighton, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $0.50 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.