Wings in Lincoln

6 restaurants in Lincoln list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Blessing Thai at $6.50, listed as Fried Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $16.24 at La Paz, so the two ends of the list are $9.74 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits 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 Lincoln is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 925 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 Omaha, about 33 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in Lincoln? Blessing Thai, at $6.50 on 4451 North 26th Street. The same dish reaches $16.24 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.74.

What should wings cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Lincoln that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Omaha, about 33 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $3.49 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.