Wings in San Diego

70 restaurants in San Diego list wings on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Phil's BBQ at $6.00, listed as BBQ Wings. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $13.50 at Cuscatlán San Diego, so the two ends of the list are $7.50 apart, which is 125% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 28 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 0 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 San Diego is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 437 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 Santee, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest wings in San Diego? Phil's BBQ, at $6.00 on 3750 Sports Arena Boulevard. The same dish reaches $13.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.50.

What should wings cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 70 kitchens in San Diego that list it. Of the ones listed above, 28 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Santee, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $4.00 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.