Wings in Columbia

6 restaurants in Columbia list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Legacy Caribbean Bar & Grill at $8.75, listed as Boneless Wings. The typical price across town is $11.95, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at Eddie's Calzones, so the two ends of the list are $7.24 apart, which is 83% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 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 $12.99 at the median, so Columbia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 652 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 Lexington, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $8.95.

Where is the cheapest wings in Columbia? Legacy Caribbean Bar & Grill, at $8.75 on 215 O'Neil Court. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.24.

What should wings cost here? About $11.95 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Columbia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Lexington, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $8.95. That is $0.20 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.