Onion Rings in Corona

3 restaurants in Corona list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Bella's Corner at $4.00. The typical price across town is $5.00, and the dearest we found is $5.20 at Vinny's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $1.20 apart, which is 30% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 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 Corona is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 497 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 Forest Hills, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Corona? Bella's Corner, at $4.00 on 106-18 Northern Blvd. The same dish reaches $5.20 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.20.

What should onion rings cost here? About $5.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Corona that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 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 Forest Hills, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. 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.