Wing Kings Crank It Up For Big Game

Memphis, TN - Memphis’ Wing Kings will crank it up for Super Bowl Sunday.

"All the fryers are going. We bring in extra fryers," David Boyd of D’Bo’s said. "Between my locations I will probably go through 200 cases of wings."

Want to impress your guests with great fried chicken? They have it.

This should be a blow out weekend of profit for both Boyd and Lou Martin, III of Uncle Lou’s, but it will not be. Whole sale prices for fresh chicken wings and drum sticks have practically doubled since the end of October.

"One reason they are saying is supply and demand. Another reason, which everything today is based on. Corn feed is up," Martin said.

If your favorite wing place doesn’t have a regular supplier, they could get hit with the ultimate personal foul.

“It's very possbile that your may not recive your product by Super Bowl Sunday,” Boyd said.
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One supplier said privately the supermarkets have been hit just as hard. Some have even passed the cost on to you.

Most independent wing restaurants probably won’t pass the cost on to you because they could lose business. It means this is one price hike where the owners will have to just eat it.