Wings in Minneapolis

18 restaurants in Minneapolis list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Mama Shelia's Soulfood Kitchen at $5.50, listed as Hot Wings. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $19.00 at Minari, so the two ends of the list are $13.50 apart, which is 245% more for the same dish. Of the 18 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 5 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 Minneapolis is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 139 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 Saint Paul, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest wings in Minneapolis? Mama Shelia's Soulfood Kitchen, at $5.50. The same dish reaches $19.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.50.

What should wings cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 18 kitchens in Minneapolis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Saint Paul, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $3.00 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.