Wings in Charlotte

14 restaurants in Charlotte list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Taco Boy at $7.00. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Boardwalk Billy's, so the two ends of the list are $10.99 apart, which is 157% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 5 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 Charlotte 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 Concord, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $11.00.

Where is the cheapest wings in Charlotte? Taco Boy, at $7.00 on 3700 South Boulevard. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.99.

What should wings cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Charlotte that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 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 Concord, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $11.00. That is $4.00 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.