Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Knoxville, TN

Iceflower tracks 288 stores from 32 fast food restaurants chains in Knoxville, TN. Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cook Out and Chick-fil-A.

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: 32
Tracked stores: 288
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. Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers and Cook Out sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers	▲1	+10.5%
2	C Cook Out	-	+4.4%
3	C Chick-fil-A	-	+3.9%
4	B Burger King	▲2	+3.9%
5	H Hardee's	-	+3.5%
6	P Panda Express	-	+2.8%
7	F Five Guys	-	+1.2%
8	T Taco Bell	-	+0.4%
9	D Dairy Queen	▲1	-0.3%
10	K Krystal	▼1	-2.1%
11	K KFC	-	-4.3%
12	W Wendy's	-	-4.8%
13	A Arby's	▼1	-6.5%
14	S Sonic Drive-In	▼1	-9.2%
15	M McDonald's	-	-18.8%

Chick-fil-A
Taco Bell
McDonald's
Burger King
Sonic Drive-In
Arby's
Hardee's
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

288 tracked store locations in Knoxville, TN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

Chick-fil-A (24)
Taco Bell (24)
McDonald's (45)
Burger King (27)
Sonic Drive-In (22)
Arby's (20)
Hardee's (16)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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