Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Arkansas

Iceflower tracks 790 stores from 49 fast food restaurants chains in Arkansas. Sonic grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Taco Bell and Chick-fil-A.

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
49
Tracked stores
790
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked fast food restaurants 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. Sonic and Taco Bell sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sonic logo Sonic - +18.4%
2 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +7.1%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +3.7%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +0.3%
5 L Long John Silver's logo Long John Silver's - 0.0%
6 C Chicken Express logo Chicken Express ▲1 -0.8%
7 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 -2.8%
8 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - -2.9%
9 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - -3.8%
10 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - -6.0%
11 A Arby's logo Arby's - -6.2%
12 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers - -6.3%
13 D Dairy Queen - -7.0%
14 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - -7.9%
15 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▼1 -9.3%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Sonic Drive-In
  • Taco Bell
  • Burger King
  • Wendy's
  • Whataburger
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • McDonald's (171)
  • Chick-fil-A (40)
  • Sonic Drive-In (141)
  • Taco Bell (65)
  • Burger King (77)
  • Wendy's (66)
  • Whataburger (21)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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