I've got a dilemma

Sup fellas,

I've got a site for a local service, lets say its a website about baking and I've got 3 pages called muffins, cakes, churros. My muffins page is now ranked number one.

My muffins page url is www.baking.com/muffins (its an example)

Now I want to create a bunch of pages for local cities in the area, so here's my question:

Would I be better off creating child pages for the parent page ( Ex: www.baking.com/muffins/Newyork) and let the link juice flow down from the parent page or should I go with www.baking.com/muffinsnewyork) as its more direct and Google prefers that.

Anyone with experience on this matter? thanks

www.baking.com/muffins/Newyork is better.

Yes, "http://domain.com/muffins/new-york" is better.

I always like to have lowercase characters in links. What you could do is create another website using to other link structure and determine the results for yourself

that's what I was feeling, parent and child pages. thanks for the reinforcement.