Onion Rings in Niagara Falls

5 restaurants in Niagara Falls list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Kelseys Original Roadhouse Niagara Falls at $4.49. The typical price across town is $9.35, and the dearest we found is $10.99 at The Secret Garden Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $6.50 apart, which is 145% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 32 other areas and compare them all on onion rings across Canada. The typical price there runs $8.00 at the median, so Niagara Falls is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Pronto in Regina, SK, and the highest best price is $8.00 in Swift Current, SK. The nearest area with it is St. Catharines, about 16 km away, where the best price is $5.98.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Niagara Falls? Kelseys Original Roadhouse Niagara Falls, at $4.49 on 4960 Clifton Hill. The same dish reaches $10.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.50.

What should onion rings cost here? About $9.35 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Niagara Falls 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 St. Catharines, about 16 km away, where the best price is $5.98. That is $1.49 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.