Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Maryland

Iceflower tracks 1,083 stores from 122 fast food restaurants chains in Maryland. Shake Shack grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers and KFC.

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
122
Tracked stores
1,083
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. Shake Shack and Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲2 +10.1%
2 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - +5.7%
3 K KFC logo KFC - +4.2%
4 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +3.7%
5 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +2.3%
6 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +1.5%
7 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -0.4%
8 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -0.8%
9 D Dairy Queen - -1.4%
10 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - -2.1%
11 A Arby's logo Arby's - -2.5%
12 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -6.8%
13 B Burger King logo Burger King - -7.2%
14 C Checkers logo Checkers ▼1 -10.4%
15 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▼1 -11.8%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Taco Bell
  • Wendy's
  • Burger King
  • Five Guys
  • Panda Express
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,083 tracked store locations in Maryland. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (232)
  • Chick-fil-A (84)
  • Taco Bell (74)
  • Wendy's (93)
  • Burger King (120)
  • Five Guys (64)
  • Panda Express (42)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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