Wings in Irvine

5 restaurants in Irvine list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Main Street Pizza & Cafe at $8.99, listed as Buffalo Wings. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $14.99 at BORJA'S Italian Restaurant (Former BJ's Italian Restaurant), so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 67% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit 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 Irvine is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 859 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 Tustin, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in Irvine? Main Street Pizza & Cafe, at $8.99 on 2540 Main St. The same dish reaches $14.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should wings cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Irvine that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 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 Tustin, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $1.00 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.