Onion Rings in Pittsburgh

31 restaurants in Pittsburgh list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Fox's Pizza Den at $4.95. The typical price across town is $7.95, and the dearest we found is $14.99 at Pizza Bellino, so the two ends of the list are $10.04 apart, which is 203% more for the same dish. Of the 31 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 11 sit within a dollar of it and 12 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 Pittsburgh is about average, with a lower typical price than 233 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 Butler, about 30 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Pittsburgh? Fox's Pizza Den, at $4.95 on 1500 Radford Rd. The same dish reaches $14.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.04.

What should onion rings cost here? About $7.95 is the typical price across the 31 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 12 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 Butler, about 30 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.05 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.