Wings in Emmaus

6 restaurants in Emmaus list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Big Woody's at $6.99, listed as Boneless Wings. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at Papa Rossi's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 129% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Emmaus is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 390 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 Coopersburg, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest wings in Emmaus? Big Woody's, at $6.99 on 3941 Chestnut St. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should wings cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Emmaus that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Coopersburg, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $1.51 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.