Wings in Sterling

6 restaurants in Sterling list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Good Fellas Dulles at $7.70, listed as Boneless Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $16.99 at Rai's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.29 apart, which is 121% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit 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 $12.98 at the median, so Sterling is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 273 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 Herndon, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.25.

Where is the cheapest wings in Sterling? Good Fellas Dulles, at $7.70 on 23520 Overland Dr. The same dish reaches $16.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.29.

What should wings cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Sterling that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Herndon, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.25. That is $0.55 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.