Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC

Iceflower tracks 443 stores from 55 fast food restaurants chains in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. Five Guys grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Panda Express and Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers.

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
55
Tracked stores
443
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. Five Guys and Panda Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +16.1%
2 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +10.5%
3 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers - +5.5%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▲1 +5.3%
5 Z Zero's Subs logo Zero's Subs - +3.7%
6 K KFC logo KFC ▲1 +2.9%
7 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - +1.4%
8 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - +0.1%
9 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -0.7%
10 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -1.7%
11 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - -4.2%
12 A Arby's logo Arby's - -4.8%
13 B Burger King logo Burger King - -5.5%
14 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▼1 -6.0%
15 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▼1 -7.4%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Wendy's
  • Taco Bell
  • Hardee's
  • Burger King
  • Cook Out
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

443 tracked store locations in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (65)
  • Chick-fil-A (23)
  • Wendy's (42)
  • Taco Bell (20)
  • Hardee's (55)
  • Burger King (59)
  • Cook Out (9)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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