Onion Rings in Neptune City

4 restaurants in Neptune City list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Pete & Elda's at $4.99, listed as Beer Battered Onion Rings. The typical price across town is $6.85, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at Tony's Pizzeria & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 500 other areas and compare them all on onion rings across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Neptune City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 405 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 Asbury Park, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Neptune City? Pete & Elda's, at $4.99 on 96 Woodland Ave. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should onion rings cost here? About $6.85 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Neptune City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Asbury Park, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.01 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.