Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in New York

Iceflower tracks 1,833 stores from 190 fast food restaurants chains in New York. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Xi'an Famous Foods and Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers.

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
190
Tracked stores
1,833
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. Chick-fil-A and Xi'an Famous Foods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +9.8%
2 X Xi'an Famous Foods logo Xi'an Famous Foods - +8.4%
3 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - +7.6%
4 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +6.5%
5 A A&W Restaurant logo A&W Restaurant ▲1 +4.6%
6 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +4.5%
7 P Pies Guys - +2.2%
8 W White Castle logo White Castle - +1.7%
9 D Dairy Queen ▲1 +1.5%
10 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba - -0.5%
11 B Burger King logo Burger King - -0.9%
12 C Checkers and Rally's logo Checkers and Rally's - -2.1%
13 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -2.9%
14 K KFC logo KFC - -3.9%
15 A Arby's logo Arby's - -4.3%
  • McDonald's
  • Wendy's
  • Taco Bell
  • Burger King
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Five Guys
  • KFC
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,833 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (570)
  • Wendy's (195)
  • Taco Bell (160)
  • Burger King (264)
  • Chick-fil-A (67)
  • Five Guys (70)
  • KFC (87)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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