Wings in Wakefield

3 restaurants in Wakefield list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Ellie's Pizza Wakefield at $9.50, listed as Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $12.49, and the dearest we found is $13.50 at My Brothers Place, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 42% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits 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 $12.99 at the median, so Wakefield is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 544 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 Lynnfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.95.

Where is the cheapest wings in Wakefield? Ellie's Pizza Wakefield, at $9.50 on 21 Princess St. The same dish reaches $13.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should wings cost here? About $12.49 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Wakefield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Lynnfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.95. That is $1.45 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.