Trends · data through July 2026

Chicken Restaurants in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Iceflower tracks 129 stores from 31 chicken restaurants chains in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. Church's Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Buffalo Wild Wings and Pollo Tropical.

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: 31
Tracked stores: 129
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. Church's Chicken and Buffalo Wild Wings sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	C Church's Chicken	-	+5.6%
2	B Buffalo Wild Wings	-	+2.8%
3	P Pollo Tropical	-	+0.7%
4	W Wingstop	-	-0.5%
5	P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen	-	-5.8%
6	Z Zaxby's	-	-7.1%
7	P PDQ	-	-23.5%
8	H Huey Magoo's	-	-27.5%

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
Zaxby's
Wingstop
Buffalo Wild Wings
Pollo Tropical
PDQ
Church's Chicken
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

129 tracked store locations in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (25)
Zaxby's (15)
Wingstop (22)
Buffalo Wild Wings (11)
Pollo Tropical (8)
PDQ (8)
Church's Chicken (10)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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