Wings in Providence

17 restaurants in Providence list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Tomato City Pizza at $6.00. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $19.41 at Lucia's Mexican Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $13.41 apart, which is 224% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 7 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 Providence is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 311 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 Cranston, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $8.74.

Where is the cheapest wings in Providence? Tomato City Pizza, at $6.00 on 1041 Douglas Ave. The same dish reaches $19.41 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.41.

What should wings cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Providence that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 Cranston, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $8.74. That is $2.74 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.