Wings in Long Beach

17 restaurants in Long Beach list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Porto Village Pizza 3 at $7.25, listed as BBQ Wings. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $19.95 at Knolls Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $12.70 apart, which is 175% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 9 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 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 $12.98 at the median, so Long Beach is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 273 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 Lakewood, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in Long Beach? Porto Village Pizza 3, at $7.25 on 2001 E S St. The same dish reaches $19.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.70.

What should wings cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Long Beach that list it. Of the ones listed above, 9 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 Lakewood, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $0.74 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.