Prices at Papa John's move store by store most weeks. Once in a while a price moves everywhere at once — and in the November 4-7, 2026 collection round, the $24.99 30 Piece Boneless Chicken Wings did exactly that.
+$5.00
The 30 Piece Boneless Chicken Wings at Papa John's went up from $24.99 to $29.99 — 20% — at 49 stores, with every store in the event now charging $29.99. Three of the Papa John's stores:
443 Passaic St, Hackensack, NJ — $29.99
76 Lakeview Ave, Clifton, NJ — $29.99
945 Pennsylvania Ave, Brooklyn, NY — $29.99
One price, everywhere, at once
Papa John's sells the 30 Piece Boneless Chicken Wings under several listings — sizes and styles of the same item. In this round every one of those listings left $24.99. A change that size, landing on the same days across 49 stores, is a menu decision, not franchisees drifting: it is the old price disappearing as a tier.
The shape of the move
The 30 Piece Boneless Chicken Wings is sold in several size and style listings; every one of them left the old price in the same round. Grouped by where the price landed:
Was
Now
Change
Store-listings
$24.99
$29.99
+$5.00
245
Also in this round
Chain
Item
Was
Now
Change
Stores
Domino's
33 items, e.g. Large (14") Hand Tossed ExtravaganZZa
How this was computed, and what we did not publish. Each store's price is read from the chain's own ordering system on a weekly rotation; a change is a store whose price for the same item differs from its previous recorded price. This story only counts events that clear a strict gate: the same item moving from the same old price to the same new price, by at least $1.00, at 40 or more stores, with both prices plausible against the item's national typical. Variants of one item — the sizes and styles above — are reported as the single event they are. This caution is not hypothetical this week: McDonald's prices were re-collected through a new route on November 3-4, and its recorded prices shifted — thousands of small rises of 10 to 30 cents that belong to the collection change, not to McDonald's menus. A raw count would have published the rewiring as a price rise. Raw counts of stores raising or cutting prices are not published: when a chain's recorded prices shift in bulk for reasons that may sit in collection rather than in the restaurants, a count would measure the shift, not the chains.
Citing this data: Source: Fast Food Index, prices checked November 7, 2026. You are welcome to quote any figure on this page.