Wings in Seattle

33 restaurants in Seattle list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Pudge Bros Pizza at $7.99, listed as Boneless Wings. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, so the two ends of the list are $17.01 apart, which is 213% more for the same dish. Of the 33 kitchens listed, 15 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 10 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 Seattle is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 139 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 Bellevue, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest wings in Seattle? Pudge Bros Pizza, at $7.99 on 269 NE 45th St. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $17.01.

What should wings cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 33 kitchens in Seattle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 15 are more than a dollar below that and 10 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 Bellevue, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $2.01 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.