Onion Rings in Lowell

8 restaurants in Lowell list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Angelina's Pizza & Subs at $4.49. The typical price across town is $6.99, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Brando's Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $5.50 apart, which is 122% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 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 Lowell is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 349 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 Dracut, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Lowell? Angelina's Pizza & Subs, at $4.49 on 1334 Middlesex St. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.50.

What should onion rings cost here? About $6.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Lowell that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Dracut, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $3.50 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.