Wings in Detroit

12 restaurants in Detroit list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Papa's Pizza & BBQ at $6.99, listed as Boneless Wings. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $24.00 at Leila, so the two ends of the list are $17.01 apart, which is 243% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 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 $12.99 at the median, so Detroit is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 563 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 Dearborn, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.24.

Where is the cheapest wings in Detroit? Papa's Pizza & BBQ, at $6.99 on 2697 W Grand Blvd. The same dish reaches $24.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $17.01.

What should wings cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Detroit that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 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 Dearborn, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.24. That is $1.25 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.