Wings in Saint Louis

18 restaurants in Saint Louis list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Hampton Hill Pizza at $9.99, listed as Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Baileys’ Range, so the two ends of the list are $6.01 apart, which is 60% more for the same dish. Of the 18 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 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 $12.98 at the median, so Saint Louis 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 Iowa City, about 219 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in Saint Louis? Hampton Hill Pizza, at $9.99 on 2801 Hampton Ave. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.01.

What should wings cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 18 kitchens in Saint Louis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 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 Iowa City, about 219 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.