Onion Rings in Hamilton

5 restaurants in Hamilton list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Kelseys Original Roadhouse at $4.98. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Shakespeares, so the two ends of the list are $7.02 apart, which is 141% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 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 32 other areas and compare them all on onion rings across Canada. The typical price there runs $8.00 at the median, so Hamilton is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 12 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Pronto in Regina, SK, and the highest best price is $8.00 in Swift Current, SK. The nearest area with it is Oakville, about 22 km away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Hamilton? Kelseys Original Roadhouse, at $4.98 on 1550 Upper James St. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.02.

What should onion rings cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Hamilton that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Oakville, about 22 km away, where the best price is $4.99. That is $0.01 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.