Trends · data through September 2026

Chicken & Wings Fast Food in the United States

Iceflower tracks 21,728 stores from 2,218 chicken & wings fast food chains in the United States. Proposition Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Blazing Bird and Dave's Hot Chicken.

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
2,218
Tracked stores
21,728
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked chicken & wings fast food 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. Proposition Chicken and Blazing Bird sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Proposition Chicken ▲7 +18.8%
2 B Blazing Bird ▲6 +18.2%
3 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken - +16.9%
4 A Asad's Hot Chicken logo Asad's Hot Chicken ▲9 +16.4%
5 C Chex Grill & Wings logo Chex Grill & Wings ▲17 +16.2%
6 H Harold's Chicken Shack logo Harold's Chicken Shack ▲6 +15.7%
7 C Chicken House ▲12 +15.1%
8 B Bossy Beulah's logo Bossy Beulah's ▲9 +13.9%
9 L Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken logo Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken - +13.7%
10 S Starbird Chicken ▲8 +13.4%
11 W Wings House ▲13 +12.9%
12 W Wings Over Athens logo Wings Over Athens ▲8 +11.9%
13 K Kennedy Fried Chicken ▲10 +11.1%
14 C Chick N Roll ▲5 +10.3%
15 T The Chicken House ▲10 +9.9%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • KFC
  • Wingstop
  • Zaxby's
  • Bojangles'
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

21,728 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (3,404)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (887)
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (2,946)
  • KFC (2,747)
  • Wingstop (2,541)
  • Zaxby's (1,026)
  • Bojangles' (856)
  • Other tracked chains

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