Onion Rings in Meriden

11 restaurants in Meriden list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is A & A Family Restaurant at $5.00. The typical price across town is $6.70, and the dearest we found is $9.95 at Willy's Pub & Grub, so the two ends of the list are $4.95 apart, which is 99% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 4 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 Meriden is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 421 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 Plantsville, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.45.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Meriden? A & A Family Restaurant, at $5.00 on 744 Murdock Ave. The same dish reaches $9.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.95.

What should onion rings cost here? About $6.70 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Meriden that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Plantsville, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.45. That is $0.45 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.