Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Columbia, SC

Iceflower tracks 212 stores from 30 fast food restaurants chains in Columbia, SC. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King 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
30
Tracked stores
212
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. Chick-fil-A and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +5.4%
2 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 -1.6%
3 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 -3.2%
4 K KFC logo KFC ▲1 -4.5%
5 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -5.6%
6 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - -7.0%
7 C Cook Out logo Cook Out ▼2 -9.6%
8 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -12.0%
9 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - -12.0%
10 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - -13.2%
11 A Arby's logo Arby's ▼1 -16.4%
12 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers - -18.3%
13 R Rush's - -19.2%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • McDonald's
  • Wendy's
  • Sonic Drive-In
  • Taco Bell
  • Burger King
  • Cook Out
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

212 tracked store locations in Columbia, SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (20)
  • McDonald's (31)
  • Wendy's (23)
  • Sonic Drive-In (21)
  • Taco Bell (10)
  • Burger King (28)
  • Cook Out (6)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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