Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Iceflower tracks 483 stores from 79 fast food restaurants chains in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hardee's and Panda Express.

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
79
Tracked stores
483
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. Chick-fil-A and Hardee's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +3.9%
2 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▲1 +2.8%
3 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +2.4%
4 H Hip Hop Fish & Chicken logo Hip Hop Fish & Chicken ▲1 +1.9%
5 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - +1.9%
6 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -0.6%
7 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - -1.1%
8 A Arby's logo Arby's - -2.5%
9 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲1 -3.0%
10 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 -3.3%
11 K KFC logo KFC - -6.0%
12 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -11.3%
13 B Burger King logo Burger King ▼1 -11.8%
14 R Roy Rogers logo Roy Rogers - -13.3%
15 C Checkers logo Checkers ▼1 -19.7%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Taco Bell
  • Burger King
  • Wendy's
  • Five Guys
  • Panda Express
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

483 tracked store locations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (96)
  • Chick-fil-A (46)
  • Taco Bell (30)
  • Burger King (55)
  • Wendy's (38)
  • Five Guys (28)
  • Panda Express (19)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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