Wings in Meriden

12 restaurants in Meriden list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Family Pizza at $7.49, listed as Classic Wings. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at A & A Family Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $7.46 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 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 $12.99 at the median, so Meriden is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 741 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 Wallingford, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.95.

Where is the cheapest wings in Meriden? Family Pizza, at $7.49 on 81 W Main St. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.46.

What should wings cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Meriden that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 Wallingford, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.95. That is $4.46 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.