Wings in Madison

5 restaurants in Madison list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Circle Pizza at $9.95, listed as BBQ Wings. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $16.95 at Red Tomato Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 70% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 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 $12.98 at the median, so Madison is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 437 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 Clinton, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.90.

Where is the cheapest wings in Madison? Circle Pizza, at $9.95 on 1278 Durham Rd. The same dish reaches $16.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should wings cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Madison that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Clinton, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.90. That is $0.95 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.