Wings in San Francisco

57 restaurants in San Francisco list wings on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Deja Vu Pizza & Pasta at $7.95, listed as Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $13.75 at Jamra Pizzeria & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $5.80 apart, which is 73% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 24 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 4 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 $12.99 at the median, so San Francisco is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 563 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 Alameda, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in San Francisco? Deja Vu Pizza & Pasta, at $7.95 on 3227 16th St. The same dish reaches $13.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.80.

What should wings cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 57 kitchens in San Francisco that list it. Of the ones listed above, 24 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Alameda, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $2.04 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.