Wings in Washington

6 restaurants in Washington list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Sal's Pizza at $7.28. The typical price across town is $12.50, and the dearest we found is $19.50 at Brother's Restaurant Bar & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $12.22 apart, which is 168% 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 $12.99 at the median, so Washington is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 526 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 Clinton, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $9.35.

Where is the cheapest wings in Washington? Sal's Pizza, at $7.28 on 1 W Washington Ave. The same dish reaches $19.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.22.

What should wings cost here? About $12.50 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Washington 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 Clinton, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $9.35. That is $2.07 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.