Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 8,000 stores from 3,060 fast food restaurants chains in the United Kingdom. Shakedown grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chicken Valley and Burger Plus.

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
3,060
Tracked stores
8,000
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. Shakedown and Chicken Valley sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Shakedown ▲7 +18.5%
2 C Chicken Valley ▲2 +18.3%
3 B Burger Plus ▲2 +18.1%
4 M Morley's logo Morley's - +17.8%
5 P Perfect Chicken ▲5 +17.5%
6 D Dixy Chicken ▲1 +15.4%
7 C Chillies ▲3 +15.2%
8 B Best Turkish Kebab ▲8 +14.7%
9 S Selekt Chicken ▲2 +14.6%
10 M Munch ▲8 +14.4%
11 T Tennessee Express ▼1 +14.0%
12 B B Bagel logo B Bagel ▲3 +13.6%
13 U UK Fried Chicken ▲5 +12.4%
14 C Chicken Cottage - +9.2%
15 O Ocean Fish Bar ▲5 +8.6%
  • McDonald's
  • KFC
  • Burger King
  • IKEA Restaurant
  • Five Guys
  • Pepe's
  • Foodhub
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

8,000 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (1,580)
  • KFC (892)
  • Burger King (489)
  • IKEA Restaurant (4)
  • Five Guys (166)
  • Pepe's (204)
  • Foodhub (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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