Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO

Iceflower tracks 768 stores from 59 fast food restaurants chains in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Arby's and Hamburger Stand.

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
59
Tracked stores
768
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. Panda Express and Arby's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +13.9%
2 A Arby's logo Arby's - +13.6%
3 H Hamburger Stand - +12.8%
4 C Culver's logo Culver's - +11.9%
5 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 +7.9%
6 B Burger King logo Burger King - +7.6%
7 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack - +1.3%
8 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - +0.6%
9 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲1 +0.1%
10 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲1 -0.4%
11 C Carl's Jr. logo Carl's Jr. - -1.7%
12 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - -1.7%
13 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - -2.4%
14 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -3.4%
15 T Taco Star ▲1 -5.3%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Taco Bell
  • Wendy's
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • In-N-Out Burger
  • Burger King
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

768 tracked store locations in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (126)
  • Chick-fil-A (43)
  • Taco Bell (67)
  • Wendy's (71)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (15)
  • In-N-Out Burger (9)
  • Burger King (66)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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