Butler restaurants, meat departments see chicken wing prices drop
No one who sells chicken wings needs to be egged on to crow about the recent price drop for the crispy, saucy delicacies.
Wholesale wings became scarce during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, which drove prices sky high.
Some restaurants and meat departments either stopped offering wings or raised their prices to compensate for the increased cost.
But that situation — which many say was caused by social distancing or COVID-19 outbreaks among workers at processing plants — seems to have ended and prices are returning to pre-pandemic levels.
“They’ve been dropping steadily for about six weeks,” said Deb Krelow, owner of the Beacon Hotel in Forward Township. “Our Tuesday night wing nights are back to $1 per wing. It was $1.75.”
She said a half-dozen of the Beacon’s jumbo wings were priced at $14, and have dropped to $12.
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