Onion Rings in Ottawa

10 restaurants in Ottawa list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Colonnade Pizza at $4.95. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $13.00 at Chop Steakhouse & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $8.05 apart, which is 163% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge 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 Ottawa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 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 Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $4.98.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Ottawa? Colonnade Pizza, at $4.95 on 896 Greenbank Road. The same dish reaches $13.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.05.

What should onion rings cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $4.98. That is $0.03 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.