Wings in Lakewood

7 restaurants in Lakewood list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Laventina's Pizza at $7.99, listed as Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Basil Pizza & Mexican Food, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 138% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 $12.98 at the median, so Lakewood is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 235 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 Bellflower, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.95.

Where is the cheapest wings in Lakewood? Laventina's Pizza, at $7.99 on 5806 Bellflower Blvd. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should wings cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Lakewood that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Bellflower, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.95. That is $0.96 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.