Onion Rings in New York

68 restaurants in New York list onion rings on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Benjy's Kosher Pizza & Sushi Bar at $4.00. The typical price across town is $7.50, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $8.00 at An Beal Bocht Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 25 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 15 sit within a dollar of it and 0 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 New York is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 280 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 Ridgewood, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.00.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in New York? Benjy's Kosher Pizza & Sushi Bar, at $4.00 on 7272 Main St. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should onion rings cost here? About $7.50 is the typical price across the 68 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 25 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Ridgewood, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.00. That is the same as 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.