Onion Rings in Springfield

18 restaurants in Springfield list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is El Sazon Criollo at $4.95. The typical price across town is $8.49, and the dearest we found is $11.99 at Springfield Pizza House, so the two ends of the list are $7.04 apart, which is 142% more for the same dish. Of the 18 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 6 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 Springfield is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 133 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 Torrington, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Springfield? El Sazon Criollo, at $4.95 on 2550 Main St. The same dish reaches $11.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.04.

What should onion rings cost here? About $8.49 is the typical price across the 18 kitchens in Springfield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Torrington, about 11 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.