Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Columbus, OH

Iceflower tracks 573 stores from 58 fast food restaurants chains in Columbus, OH. Dave's Hot Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Culver's and Panda Express.

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
58
Tracked stores
573
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 Culver's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken ▲1 +11.6%
2 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲2 +9.4%
3 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +5.8%
4 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲1 +4.7%
5 A Arby's logo Arby's - +4.4%
6 L Long John Silver's logo Long John Silver's - +2.9%
7 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +2.7%
8 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +1.9%
9 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba ▲1 +1.7%
10 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▲1 +1.5%
11 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +0.8%
12 B Burger King logo Burger King - +0.7%
13 F Fazoli's logo Fazoli's - -2.5%
14 K KFC logo KFC - -2.5%
15 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - -2.6%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Wendy's
  • Taco Bell
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • Dairy Queen
  • Burger King
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

573 tracked store locations in Columbus, OH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (82)
  • Chick-fil-A (17)
  • Wendy's (87)
  • Taco Bell (51)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (15)
  • Dairy Queen (42)
  • Burger King (58)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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