Wingstop Tests Chicken Thighs to Offset Soaring U.S. Wing Prices

Wingstop Inc. -- a restaurant chain that primarily sells, well, wings -- is testing bone-in chicken thighs to help stabilize costs as prices for wings remain particularly volatile.

The company, which said in February it would be trialing the new thigh product this year, has been dealing with inflation in bone-in chicken wings. In addition to adding thighs to the menu in some markets, Wingstop has also responded to the fluctuating wing costs by raising some prices for consumers and negotiating with poultry suppliers, it said.