Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Birmingham, AL

Iceflower tracks 367 stores from 35 fast food restaurants chains in Birmingham, AL. Whataburger grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Wings R King and Wendy's.

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: 35
Tracked stores: 367
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. Whataburger and Wings R King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	W Whataburger	-	+5.9%
2	W Wings R King	-	+5.0%
3	W Wendy's	-	+3.8%
4	S Sonic Drive-In	▲2	+3.6%
5	C Chick-fil-A	-	+3.3%
6	P Panda Express	-	+3.1%
7	K Krystal	-	+2.5%
8	H Hardee's	▲2	-0.1%
9	D Dairy Queen	-	-0.5%
10	F Five Guys	-	-0.5%
11	M McDonald's	-	-0.9%
12	B Burger King	-	-1.1%
13	T Taco Bell	-	-1.5%
14	J Jack's	-	-2.5%
15	M Milo's Hamburgers	-	-3.4%

Chick-fil-A
McDonald's
Jack's
Taco Bell
Sonic Drive-In
Milo's Hamburgers
Arby's
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

367 tracked store locations in Birmingham, AL. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

Chick-fil-A (32)
McDonald's (43)
Jack's (50)
Taco Bell (27)
Sonic Drive-In (21)
Milo's Hamburgers (11)
Arby's (28)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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