Wings in Calgary

19 restaurants in Calgary list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Ramen Ninja at $7.95, listed as Chicken Wing. The typical price across town is $18.00, and the dearest we found is $24.50 at Amici Italian Grill & Lounge, so the two ends of the list are $16.55 apart, which is 208% more for the same dish. Of the 19 kitchens listed, 9 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 29 other areas and compare them all on wings across Canada. The typical price there runs $19.00 at the median, so Calgary is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 of the 29. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.00 at Noble Cuisine in Barrie, ON, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Kingston, ON. The nearest area with it is Banff, about 125 km away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest wings in Calgary? Ramen Ninja, at $7.95 on 3820 Brentwood Road NW. The same dish reaches $24.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.55.

What should wings cost here? About $18.00 is the typical price across the 19 kitchens in Calgary that list it. Of the ones listed above, 9 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Banff, about 125 km away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $8.05 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.