Trends · data through September 2026

Burger Chains in Maryland

Iceflower tracks 751 stores from 58 burger chains in Maryland. Shake Shack grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King and Five Guys.

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
751
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. Shake Shack and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack - +7.9%
2 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +4.9%
3 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +4.1%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +2.0%
5 T The Habit Burger Grill logo The Habit Burger Grill - -1.0%
6 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - -7.0%
7 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - -7.5%
8 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▼1 -8.5%
9 B BurgerFi logo BurgerFi ▲1 -8.6%
10 W Wayback Burgers logo Wayback Burgers - -12.5%
11 P PLNT Burger logo PLNT Burger - -14.5%
12 R Roy Rogers logo Roy Rogers - -16.8%
13 C Checkers logo Checkers - -17.4%
14 B Boardwalk Fries logo Boardwalk Fries - -18.3%
15 C Checkers and Rally's logo Checkers and Rally's ▼1 -28.0%
  • McDonald's
  • Burger King
  • Wendy's
  • Five Guys
  • Roy Rogers
  • Checkers
  • Shake Shack
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

751 tracked store locations in Maryland. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (286)
  • Burger King (125)
  • Wendy's (106)
  • Five Guys (63)
  • Roy Rogers (23)
  • Checkers (28)
  • Shake Shack (9)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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