While many bars and restaurants continue to offer cheap chicken wings as an
enticement to get diners and drinkers in the door, the demand for the little
bits of bird has increased so much in the last decade that wholesale costs for
wings have more than doubled.
According to the Dept. of Agriculture, wings were wholesaling at $.68/pound 10
years ago. These days, wholesalers are charging around $1.47/pound for wings.
“Every time that there is Christmas, wings go up,” says Ivano Toscani of the
Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY, where Buffalo wings were first made. The restaurant
says they go through about a ton of wings each day. “Super Bowl, wings go up
but the problem is they never come down. They go up and they stay there.”
While prices for wings have soared, the price for chicken breasts have
decreased.
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