Trends · data through July 2026

Chicken Restaurants in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 236 stores from 35 chicken restaurants chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Chex Grill & Wings grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Wingstop and Buffalo Wild Wings.

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
35
Tracked stores
236
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked chicken 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. Chex Grill & Wings and Wingstop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chex Grill & Wings logo Chex Grill & Wings ▲1 +17.8%
2 W Wingstop logo Wingstop - +6.0%
3 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings - +3.0%
4 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - +1.7%
5 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - -2.9%
6 C Chicken King - -2.9%
7 S Super Chix logo Super Chix - -4.7%
8 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken - -5.5%
9 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - -15.6%
10 S Slim Chickens logo Slim Chickens ▼1 -15.9%
  • Bojangles'
  • Zaxby's
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • East Coast Wings + Grill
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • Wingstop
  • Chex Grill & Wings
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

236 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Bojangles' (100)
  • Zaxby's (36)
  • Buffalo Wild Wings (13)
  • East Coast Wings + Grill (5)
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (9)
  • Wingstop (19)
  • Chex Grill & Wings (7)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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