Onion Rings in Santa Monica

3 restaurants in Santa Monica list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. at $6.99. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Ivy at the Shore, so the two ends of the list are $10.01 apart, which is 143% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Santa Monica 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 Culver City, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Santa Monica? Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., at $6.99 on 301 Santa Monica Pier Building 9. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.01.

What should onion rings cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Santa Monica that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Culver City, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $2.01 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.