Wings in Merrick

6 restaurants in Merrick list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Via Roma Pizza at $8.60. The typical price across town is $15.95, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Pizza Cucina of North Merrick, so the two ends of the list are $9.40 apart, which is 109% 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 $12.98 at the median, so Merrick is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 76 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 Freeport, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest wings in Merrick? Via Roma Pizza, at $8.60 on 1764 Merrick Ave. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.40.

What should wings cost here? About $15.95 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Merrick 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 Freeport, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $1.40 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.