Wings in Charleston

10 restaurants in Charleston list wings on their menus. The cheapest is California Dreaming at $6.95, listed as Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $16.32 at Ciao Bella Restaurant, Pizzeria, Martini Bar Charlston SC, so the two ends of the list are $9.37 apart, which is 135% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 973 other areas and compare them all on wings across United States. The typical price there runs $12.95 at the median, so Charleston is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 566 of the 973. 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 Mount Pleasant, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $9.49.

Where is the cheapest wings in Charleston? California Dreaming, at $6.95 on 1 Ashley Point Drive. The same dish reaches $16.32 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.37.

What should wings cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Charleston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Mount Pleasant, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $9.49. That is $2.54 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.