Chain · United States · data through September 2026

D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken

Iceflower tracks 187 Dave's Hot Chicken stores across 34 US states and DC. It ranks #8 of 2,218 tracked US chicken & wings fast food chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +16.9% 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
187
States
34
Category
Chicken & Wings Fast Food
Category rank
#8

Growth

Dave's Hot Chicken against its category

The biggest tracked US chicken & wings fast food 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 Dave's Hot Chicken's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A +4.7%
2 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers -4.9%
3 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen -4.1%
4 K KFC logo KFC -10.9%
5 W Wingstop logo Wingstop -6.4%
6 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's +1.5%
7 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' +1.0%
8 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken +16.9%
9 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken +3.8%
10 S Slim Chickens logo Slim Chickens -3.3%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 138.7 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

187 tracked Dave's Hot Chicken locations across 34 US states and DC.

Customer overlap

Who shops at Dave's Hot Chicken

Tracked chains Dave's Hot Chicken customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

C Chevron logo Chevron 62
C Costco Gas logo Costco Gas 62
A ampm logo ampm 53
N Newport NS Commissary 51
D D&B Supply logo D&B Supply 51
P Port Hueneme Commissary 50

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