Trends · data through September 2026

Burger Chains in Tennessee

Iceflower tracks 1,632 stores from 143 burger chains in Tennessee. Wayback Burgers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jack Brown's Beer & Burger Joint and Burger King.

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
143
Tracked stores
1,632
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. Wayback Burgers and Jack Brown's Beer & Burger Joint sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Wayback Burgers logo Wayback Burgers - +10.9%
2 J Jack Brown's Beer & Burger Joint logo Jack Brown's Beer & Burger Joint - +10.7%
3 B Burger King logo Burger King - +7.9%
4 H Huey's logo Huey's ▲1 +7.2%
5 P Pal's Sudden Service logo Pal's Sudden Service ▲1 +6.1%
6 S Steak 'n Shake logo Steak 'n Shake ▼1 +5.8%
7 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack - +3.9%
8 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +3.3%
9 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +3.0%
10 C Checkers logo Checkers - +2.4%
11 C Cook Out logo Cook Out - +2.3%
12 J Jack in the Box logo Jack in the Box - -0.7%
13 S Sonic logo Sonic - -1.4%
14 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers - -2.9%
15 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - -2.9%
  • McDonald's
  • Sonic Drive-In
  • Wendy's
  • Burger King
  • Hardee's
  • Cook Out
  • Whataburger
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,632 tracked store locations in Tennessee. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (363)
  • Sonic Drive-In (229)
  • Wendy's (215)
  • Burger King (199)
  • Hardee's (145)
  • Cook Out (33)
  • Whataburger (27)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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