Onion Rings in Kingston

3 restaurants in Kingston list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Kelseys Original Roadhouse at $4.98. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at Portsmouth Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $5.02 apart, which is 101% 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 32 other areas and compare them all on onion rings across Canada. The typical price there runs $8.00 at the median, so Kingston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 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 Belleville, about 71 km away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Kingston? Kelseys Original Roadhouse, at $4.98 on 650 Gardiners Rd. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.02.

What should onion rings cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Kingston 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 Belleville, about 71 km away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $2.01 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.