Trends · data through September 2026

Burger Chains in Arkansas

Iceflower tracks 691 stores from 65 burger chains in Arkansas. Steak 'n Shake grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King and Five Guys.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
65
Tracked stores
691
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked burger chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Steak 'n Shake and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Steak 'n Shake logo Steak 'n Shake - +18.2%
2 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +8.1%
3 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +5.9%
4 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers - +4.8%
5 W Whataburger logo Whataburger - +4.2%
6 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +2.5%
7 S Sonic logo Sonic - +0.9%
8 D David's Burgers - +0.1%
9 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - -3.2%
10 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - -4.8%
11 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▼1 -10.9%
12 C Checkers and Rally's logo Checkers and Rally's - -17.9%
13 W Wienerschnitzel logo Wienerschnitzel - -23.3%
  • McDonald's
  • Sonic Drive-In
  • Burger King
  • Wendy's
  • Whataburger
  • David's Burgers
  • Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

691 tracked store locations in Arkansas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (183)
  • Sonic Drive-In (189)
  • Burger King (87)
  • Wendy's (71)
  • Whataburger (21)
  • David's Burgers (6)
  • Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers (18)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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