Trends · data through September 2026

Burger Chains in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Iceflower tracks 330 stores from 36 burger chains in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Shake Shack 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: 36
Tracked stores: 330
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. Shake Shack and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	S Shake Shack	-	+12.1%
2	B Burger King	-	+8.9%
3	F Five Guys	-	+2.3%
4	M McDonald's	-	+0.7%
5	H Hardee's	-	-7.7%
6	W Wendy's	-	-8.4%
7	S Sonic Drive-In	▲1	-14.6%
8	B Boardwalk Fries	-	-20.0%
9	C Checkers	▼1	-20.1%
10	R Roy Rogers	-	-25.3%
11	A Abbey Burger Bistro	-	-36.6%

McDonald's
Burger King
Wendy's
Five Guys
Shake Shack
Sonic Drive-In
Checkers
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

330 tracked store locations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

McDonald's (125)
Burger King (60)
Wendy's (46)
Five Guys (29)
Shake Shack (4)
Sonic Drive-In (9)
Checkers (14)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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