Trends · data through September 2026

Chicken & Wings Fast Food in New York

Iceflower tracks 678 stores from 157 chicken & wings fast food chains in New York. Dave's Hot Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Kennedy Fried Chicken and Krispy Krunchy Chicken.

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
157
Tracked stores
678
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. Dave's Hot Chicken and Kennedy Fried Chicken sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken - +14.3%
2 K Kennedy Fried Chicken - +10.3%
3 K Krispy Krunchy Chicken logo Krispy Krunchy Chicken - +10.0%
4 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +8.1%
5 C Chicken Now - -0.8%
6 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - -10.3%
7 K KFC logo KFC - -12.6%
8 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - -13.6%
9 C Crown Fried Chicken - -14.8%
10 S Sweet Chick logo Sweet Chick - -15.0%
11 A Atomic Wings - -19.2%
12 P Planet Wings logo Planet Wings - -27.6%
13 B Boston Market logo Boston Market - -38.1%
14 C Chester's Chicken logo Chester's Chicken - -45.6%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • KFC
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • Dave's Hot Chicken
  • Wingstop
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • Wingnutz
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

678 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (68)
  • KFC (114)
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (160)
  • Dave's Hot Chicken (11)
  • Wingstop (83)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (9)
  • Wingnutz (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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