Trends · data through September 2026

Burger Chains in Louisiana

Iceflower tracks 962 stores from 99 burger chains in Louisiana. Smalls Sliders grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King and Shake Shack.

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
99
Tracked stores
962
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked burger 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. Smalls Sliders and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Smalls Sliders logo Smalls Sliders ▲1 +18.8%
2 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +11.2%
3 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▼1 +9.9%
4 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +7.6%
5 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲1 +4.6%
6 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +2.3%
7 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▼1 -0.1%
8 W Whataburger logo Whataburger - -2.6%
9 G Gerald's Donuts ▲1 -3.0%
10 C Checkers logo Checkers - -4.0%
11 P Philly Dat Up ▲1 -4.3%
12 B Burgersmith ▲1 -5.8%
13 C Checkers and Rally's logo Checkers and Rally's - -9.1%
14 S Sonic logo Sonic ▲2 -13.7%
15 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -16.0%
  • McDonald's
  • Wendy's
  • Burger King
  • Sonic Drive-In
  • Whataburger
  • Five Guys
  • Smalls Sliders
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

962 tracked store locations in Louisiana. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (244)
  • Wendy's (130)
  • Burger King (166)
  • Sonic Drive-In (173)
  • Whataburger (30)
  • Five Guys (18)
  • Smalls Sliders (12)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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