Wings in Jamaica

12 restaurants in Jamaica list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Farmers Pizza & Grill at $5.00, listed as Buffalo Wings. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $13.95 at Due Fratelli, so the two ends of the list are $8.95 apart, which is 179% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 4 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 Jamaica is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 934 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 Ozone Park, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.50.

Where is the cheapest wings in Jamaica? Farmers Pizza & Grill, at $5.00 on 11725 Farmers Blvd. The same dish reaches $13.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.95.

What should wings cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Jamaica that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Ozone Park, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.50. That is $1.50 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.