Trends · data through September 2026

Chicken & Wings Fast Food in Maryland

Iceflower tracks 473 stores from 98 chicken & wings fast food chains in Maryland. Slim Chickens grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers 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
98
Tracked stores
473
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked chicken & wings fast food 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. Slim Chickens and Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Slim Chickens logo Slim Chickens - +9.3%
2 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers ▲1 +3.8%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +1.5%
4 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - -2.3%
5 W Wingstop logo Wingstop - -7.4%
6 A America's Best Wings logo America's Best Wings - -8.1%
7 K KFC logo KFC ▼1 -11.8%
8 P Peri Peri Original ▲1 -15.2%
9 C Crimson Coward logo Crimson Coward ▲1 -17.3%
10 H Hangry Joe's Hot Chicken & Wings logo Hangry Joe's Hot Chicken & Wings - -21.0%
11 N Nando's logo Nando's ▼2 -95.5%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • KFC
  • Wingstop
  • America's Best Wings
  • Slim Chickens
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Chick-fil-A (94)
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (102)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (9)
  • KFC (39)
  • Wingstop (34)
  • America's Best Wings (43)
  • Slim Chickens (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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