Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 251 stores from 26 fast food restaurants chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Char-Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cook Out and Qdoba.

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
26
Tracked stores
251
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. Char-Grill and Cook Out sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Char-Grill logo Char-Grill - +15.4%
2 C Cook Out logo Cook Out ▲2 +8.8%
3 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba ▲1 +8.5%
4 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +1.0%
5 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▼1 +0.5%
6 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - -0.6%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -1.4%
8 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲1 -1.5%
9 B Burger King logo Burger King - -2.4%
10 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -3.3%
11 A Arby's logo Arby's - -5.8%
12 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▼1 -6.6%
13 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - -10.4%
14 K KFC logo KFC ▼1 -11.4%
15 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▼1 -12.4%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • McDonald's
  • Cook Out
  • Taco Bell
  • Wendy's
  • Burger King
  • Culver's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

251 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (31)
  • McDonald's (45)
  • Cook Out (8)
  • Taco Bell (17)
  • Wendy's (29)
  • Burger King (31)
  • Culver's (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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