Wings in Sacramento

23 restaurants in Sacramento list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Championz Pizza at $7.99, listed as Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $17.25 at Luigi's Pizza Parlor, so the two ends of the list are $9.26 apart, which is 116% more for the same dish. Of the 23 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge 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 Sacramento is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 743 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 Rancho Cordova, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in Sacramento? Championz Pizza, at $7.99 on 3150 Macon Dr. The same dish reaches $17.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.26.

What should wings cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 23 kitchens in Sacramento that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 Rancho Cordova, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $1.00 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.