Wings in Lansing

6 restaurants in Lansing list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Finger Lickin Chicken & Fish at $4.50, listed as Whole Wings. The typical price across town is $9.59, and the dearest we found is $14.00 at Reno's North, so the two ends of the list are $9.50 apart, which is 211% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 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 $12.99 at the median, so Lansing is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 911 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 East Lansing, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest wings in Lansing? Finger Lickin Chicken & Fish, at $4.50 on 2317 W Michigan Ave. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.50.

What should wings cost here? About $9.59 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Lansing that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 East Lansing, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $4.50 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.