Chain · United States · data through September 2026

C China Express

Iceflower tracks 168 China Express stores across 32 US states. It ranks #13 of 9,141 tracked US Chinese chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -7.7% over the last year.

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 stores
168
States
32
Category
Chinese
Category rank
#13

Growth

China Express against its category

The biggest tracked US Chinese chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks China Express's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express +5.3%
2 S Steam +13.2%
3 C China Wok -3.6%
4 D Din Tai Fung logo Din Tai Fung +11.2%
5 C China King -1.6%
6 G Great Wall -6.5%
7 C China Garden -4.9%
8 H Hong Kong Restaurant -5.7%
9 N New China -6.5%
10 P Pei Wei logo Pei Wei -10.5%
13 C China Express -7.7%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 88.4 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

168 tracked China Express locations across 32 US states.

Customer overlap

Who shops at China Express

Tracked chains China Express customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

B Barnwell IGA logo Barnwell IGA 100
S Sport's Convience Store 70
B Bi-Rite Food Stores 58
P Palmetto Roads 44
F Food Depot logo Food Depot 29
F Fastrac logo Fastrac 20
C China Lake NAWS Commissary 19

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