Trends · data through September 2026

Burger Chains in Pennsylvania

Iceflower tracks 1,369 stores from 130 burger chains in Pennsylvania. Zac's Hamburgers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers and Wayback Burgers.

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
130
Tracked stores
1,369
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. Zac's Hamburgers and Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Z Zac's Hamburgers - +17.6%
2 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲1 +6.3%
3 W Wayback Burgers logo Wayback Burgers ▲1 +4.3%
4 B Burger King logo Burger King - +4.2%
5 F Fatburger logo Fatburger - +3.7%
6 S Smashburger logo Smashburger - +3.3%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +2.2%
8 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +1.8%
9 R Roy Rogers logo Roy Rogers - +0.2%
10 B Burgatory logo Burgatory - -3.7%
11 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -10.9%
12 C Checkers logo Checkers ▼1 -11.0%
13 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - -13.9%
14 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▼1 -16.9%
15 A A&W Restaurant logo A&W Restaurant - -28.5%
  • McDonald's
  • Wendy's
  • Burger King
  • Five Guys
  • Shake Shack
  • Burgatory
  • Sonic Drive-In
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,369 tracked store locations in Pennsylvania. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (515)
  • Wendy's (260)
  • Burger King (293)
  • Five Guys (72)
  • Shake Shack (13)
  • Burgatory (4)
  • Sonic Drive-In (23)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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