Wings in Atlantic City

12 restaurants in Atlantic City list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Maria's Pizzeria at $6.99. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $24.69 at The Original LoPresti's Pizza & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $17.70 apart, which is 253% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 4 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 Atlantic City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 311 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 Pleasantville, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.50.

Where is the cheapest wings in Atlantic City? Maria's Pizzeria, at $6.99 on 405 N Pennsylvania Ave. The same dish reaches $24.69 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $17.70.

What should wings cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Atlantic City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Pleasantville, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.50. That is $0.51 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.