Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 419 stores from 39 fast food restaurants chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Dave's Hot Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Moe's Italian Sandwiches and Taco Bell.

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: 39
Tracked stores: 419
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. Dave's Hot Chicken and Moe's Italian Sandwiches sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	D Dave's Hot Chicken	-	+19.6%
2	M Moe's Italian Sandwiches	-	+16.5%
3	T Taco Bell	▲1	+15.4%
4	R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers	-	+12.6%
5	Q Qdoba	-	+1.8%
6	S Shake Shack	-	-0.1%
7	D Dairy Queen	-	-3.2%
8	M McDonald's	-	-3.7%
9	B Burger King	-	-4.7%
10	K KFC	-	-6.3%
11	F Five Guys	▼1	-8.4%
12	P Panda Express	-	-8.5%
13	W Wendy's	-	-10.9%

McDonald's
Chick-fil-A
Wendy's
Burger King
Shake Shack
Taco Bell
Five Guys
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

419 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

McDonald's (129)
Chick-fil-A (15)
Wendy's (58)
Burger King (62)
Shake Shack (14)
Taco Bell (26)
Five Guys (32)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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