Wings in Oakland

15 restaurants in Oakland list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Purple Pepper Pizza at $6.99. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Basil Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $13.01 apart, which is 186% more for the same dish. Of the 15 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 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 $12.99 at the median, so Oakland 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 Alameda, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in Oakland? Purple Pepper Pizza, at $6.99 on 4496 Broadway. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.01.

What should wings cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 15 kitchens in Oakland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 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 Alameda, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. 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.