Wing Dings in Detroit

3 restaurants in Detroit list wing dings on their menus. The cheapest is Papa's Pizza & BBQ at $6.99. The typical price across town is $8.49, and the dearest we found is $11.00 at Sindbad's Restaurant and Marina, so the two ends of the list are $4.01 apart, which is 57% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track wing dings in 2 other areas and compare them all on wing dings across United States. The typical price there runs $14.78 at the median, so Detroit is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.99 at Blue Hill House of Pizza in Dorchester, MA, and the highest best price is $11.50 in Quincy, MA. The nearest area with it is Dorchester, about 620 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest wing dings in Detroit? Papa's Pizza & BBQ, at $6.99 on 2697 W Grand Blvd. The same dish reaches $11.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.01.

What should wing dings cost here? About $8.49 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Detroit that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Dorchester, about 620 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $3.00 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.