Trends · data through September 2026

Burger Chains in St. Louis, MO-IL

Iceflower tracks 519 stores from 45 burger chains in St. Louis, MO-IL. Checkers and Rally's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King and Culver's.

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: 45
Tracked stores: 519
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. Checkers and Rally's and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	C Checkers and Rally's	-	+18.9%
2	B Burger King	▲1	+9.8%
3	C Culver's	-	+7.6%
4	S Steak 'n Shake	▲2	+5.8%
5	S Shake Shack	-	+5.4%
6	F Five Guys	-	+5.2%
7	M McDonald's	-	+0.7%
8	H Hardee's	-	-1.5%
9	W White Castle	▲1	-2.3%
10	F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers	-	-2.9%
11	J Jack in the Box	-	-6.7%
12	A A&W Restaurant	-	-7.8%
13	S Sonic Drive-In	▼2	-10.4%
14	W Wendy's	▼2	-17.2%
15	H Hi-Pointe Drive-In	-	-20.1%

McDonald's
Culver's
Burger King
White Castle
Wendy's
Jack in the Box
Steak 'n Shake
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

519 tracked store locations in St. Louis, MO-IL. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

McDonald's (142)
Culver's (14)
Burger King (60)
White Castle (27)
Wendy's (40)
Jack in the Box (53)
Steak 'n Shake (23)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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