Wings in Edison

14 restaurants in Edison list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Tony's Italian Restaurant & Pizza at $8.25, listed as BBQ Wings. The typical price across town is $10.75, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Francesco's Pizzeria & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $7.75 apart, which is 94% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 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 Edison is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 799 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 Metuchen, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $10.95.

Where is the cheapest wings in Edison? Tony's Italian Restaurant & Pizza, at $8.25 on 1199 Amboy Ave. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.75.

What should wings cost here? About $10.75 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Edison that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Metuchen, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $10.95. That is $2.70 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.