Onion Rings in Los Angeles

17 restaurants in Los Angeles list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Royal Pizza at $4.49. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at Big Mama's & Papa's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $8.50 apart, which is 189% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 6 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 Los Angeles is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 200 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 Culver City, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Los Angeles? Royal Pizza, at $4.49 on 13666 Oxnard St. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.50.

What should onion rings cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Culver City, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $4.51 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.