Wings in Atlanta

24 restaurants in Atlanta list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Best Pizza at $5.99, listed as Boneless Wings. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $20.95 at Pero's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $14.96 apart, which is 250% more for the same dish. Of the 24 kitchens listed, 9 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 969 other areas and compare them all on wings across United States. The typical price there runs $12.98 at the median, so Atlanta is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 437 of the 969. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Uno Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $17.55 in Paramus, NJ. The nearest area with it is College Park, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in Atlanta? Best Pizza, at $5.99 on 4508 Washington Rd. The same dish reaches $20.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.96.

What should wings cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 24 kitchens in Atlanta that list it. Of the ones listed above, 9 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 College Park, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is the same as 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.