Why You Should Avoid Ordering Chicken Wings From Little Caesars

In Tasting Table's ranking of 15 fast food chicken wing brands, the wings from Little Caesars fell to last place. We've returned less to explain our decision than to properly steer foodies in another direction. Wing lovers should be "Hot-N-Ready" to go order wings someplace else.

We're not contesting that Little Caesars knows pizza, but after tasting the chain's wings, we think it should probably stick to what it knows best. The wings come in four available flavor options (Oven Roasted, Buffalo, BBQ, and Garlic Parmesan), but to create a more even playing field for testing methodology, we ordered the plain sauceless oven-roasted variety. Upon trying the Little Caesars wings, our tester noted that they seemed to be "kept in a heat chamber," which impacted both the texture and the exterior color. There was a dark brown hue on the outside of the wings due to the prolonged heat exposure, the texture was unpleasantly tough and chewy, and the temperature was tepid at best.

Foodies have taken to Reddit to discuss the shortcomings of Little Caesars' wings, and a common criticism is the cooking method. After one person said they don't order wings from pizza places unless they are deep-fried, another agreed that the baking method is always a disappointment and never as good as the deep-fried version. Others added that the cooking method doesn't create crispy, crunchy chicken wings like a deep fryer does.

One ostensible Little Caesars employee jumped onto Reddit to explain the oven-roasted wings, stating that they were frozen and paired with sauce once done being cooked. The same person said they replicated the taste at home with air-fried frozen wings from Sam's Club. Another apparent industry worker similarly chimed in, saying that all of the pizza places they've worked cook wings in their ovens from frozen. Sound appetizing?

Beyond the cooking method, fans' other major criticism of Little Caesars' wings is their size, which ranges from extremely miniature to the smallest wings ever seen. Still, in true brand fashion, if Little Caesars delivers anywhere with these small, soggy wings, it's on price. An eight-piece order of "Caesar wings" from a Little Caesars location in Brooklyn, NY runs for $8.99, shaking out to $1.13 per tiny wing. By comparison, the wings from competitor Wingstop (which came in fifth-place in our ranking) run a much steeper $17.29 for a 10-piece ($1.73 per wing) in Brooklyn.