Wings in Waltham

12 restaurants in Waltham list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Tara Restaurant Pizza & More at $9.25, listed as Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $13.79, and the dearest we found is $23.00 at Pini's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $13.75 apart, which is 149% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 Waltham is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 337 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 Watertown, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.50.

Where is the cheapest wings in Waltham? Tara Restaurant Pizza & More, at $9.25 on 288 Moody Street. The same dish reaches $23.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.75.

What should wings cost here? About $13.79 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Waltham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Watertown, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.50. That is $2.25 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.