Wings in West Des Moines

3 restaurants in West Des Moines list wings on their menus. The cheapest is The Chicken Coop at $8.00, listed as Boneless Wings. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at The Chicken, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 50% 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 West Des Moines is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 859 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 Des Moines, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in West Des Moines? The Chicken Coop, at $8.00 on 5906 Ashworth Road. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should wings cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in West Des Moines 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 Des Moines, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $2.99 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.