Wings in St. Charles

3 restaurants in St. Charles list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Chicago Pizza & Pasta at $7.99, listed as Boneless Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $11.00 at Rosati's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.01 apart, which is 38% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 969 other areas and compare them all on wings across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so St. Charles is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 893 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 Carol Stream, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest wings in St. Charles? Chicago Pizza & Pasta, at $7.99 on 2400 E Main St. The same dish reaches $11.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.01.

What should wings cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in St. Charles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Carol Stream, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $1.01 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.