Trends · data through July 2026

Chicken Restaurants in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Iceflower tracks 164 stores from 41 chicken restaurants chains in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Buffalo Wild Wings and New York Fried 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
41
Tracked stores
164
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked chicken 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. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and Buffalo Wild Wings sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - +2.7%
2 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings - +2.0%
3 N New York Fried Chicken - -8.5%
4 W Wingstop logo Wingstop - -13.2%
5 W Wings To Go logo Wings To Go - -15.8%
6 A America's Best Wings logo America's Best Wings - -22.7%
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • Wingstop
  • Crown Fried Chicken
  • New York Fried Chicken
  • Nanu's Hot Chicken
  • Hangry Joe's Hot Chicken & Wings
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

164 tracked store locations in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (54)
  • Buffalo Wild Wings (17)
  • Wingstop (27)
  • Crown Fried Chicken (12)
  • New York Fried Chicken (3)
  • Nanu's Hot Chicken (2)
  • Hangry Joe's Hot Chicken & Wings (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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