Onion Rings in Saint Louis

8 restaurants in Saint Louis list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Hodaks at $4.00. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $14.00 at Hessler's Pub & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $10.00 apart, which is 250% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 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 Saint Louis is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 57 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 Springfield, about 86 mi away, where the best price is $7.59.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Saint Louis? Hodaks, at $4.00 on 2100 Gravois Avenue. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.00.

What should onion rings cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Saint Louis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Springfield, about 86 mi away, where the best price is $7.59. That is $3.59 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.