Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

K KFC logo KFC

Iceflower tracks 892 KFC stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #2 of 3,060 tracked UK fast food restaurants chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -1.6% over the last year.

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 stores
892
Regions
12
Category
Fast Food Restaurant
Category rank
#2

Growth

KFC against its category

The biggest tracked UK fast food restaurants chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks KFC's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 M McDonald's logo McDonald's -1.1%
2 K KFC logo KFC -1.6%
3 B Burger King logo Burger King -4.3%
4 I IKEA Restaurant logo IKEA Restaurant -8.7%
5 F Five Guys logo Five Guys -30.9%
6 P Pepe's -
7 F Foodhub -
8 I itsu -3.9%
9 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell -3.1%
10 G German Doner Kebab +3.5%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 97.1 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

892 tracked KFC locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • London 159
  • South East 132
  • North West 99
  • East of England 84
  • West Midlands 72
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 70
  • South West 65
  • East Midlands 63
  • Scotland 53
  • Wales 41
  • North East 31
  • Northern Ireland 22
  • Other 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at KFC

Tracked chains KFC customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

M McDonald's logo McDonald's 100
G Greggs logo Greggs 43
S Subway logo Subway 29
A Asda logo Asda 24
S Starbucks logo Starbucks 18
S Shell logo Shell 14
N Nando's logo Nando's 14
E Esso 13

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