Onion Rings in New Orleans

7 restaurants in New Orleans list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Remoulade at $4.95, listed as Fried Onion Rings. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $9.25 at Joey K's, so the two ends of the list are $4.30 apart, which is 87% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 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 New Orleans is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 321 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 Metairie, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $8.95.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in New Orleans? Remoulade, at $4.95. The same dish reaches $9.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.30.

What should onion rings cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in New Orleans that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Metairie, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $8.95. That is $4.00 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.