Trends · data through July 2026

Chicken Restaurants in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

Iceflower tracks 330 stores from 58 chicken restaurants chains in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Buffalo Wild Wings and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen.

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
330
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. Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken and Buffalo Wild Wings sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken ▲1 +3.5%
2 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings - +1.8%
3 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - +0.7%
4 J Juan Pollo logo Juan Pollo - -4.1%
5 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken - -6.0%
6 W Wingstop logo Wingstop - -12.6%
7 T The Buffalo Spot ▼1 -20.7%
  • Wingstop
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles
  • Louisiana Fried Chicken
  • Church's Chicken
  • Calif Chicken Cafe
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

330 tracked store locations in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Wingstop (116)
  • Buffalo Wild Wings (31)
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (73)
  • Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles (4)
  • Louisiana Fried Chicken (9)
  • Church's Chicken (18)
  • Calif Chicken Cafe (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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