Wings in Princeton

4 restaurants in Princeton list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Valentino's Pizzeria & Trattoria at $9.99, listed as BBQ Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $12.50, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Winberie's Restaurant & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $7.01 apart, which is 70% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 973 other areas and compare them all on wings across United States. The typical price there runs $12.95 at the median, so Princeton is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 527 of the 973. 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 Lawrenceville, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in Princeton? Valentino's Pizzeria & Trattoria, at $9.99 on 110 Rockingham Row. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.01.

What should wings cost here? About $12.50 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Princeton that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Lawrenceville, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is the same as 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.