Trends · data through September 2026

Chicken & Wings Fast Food in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 123 stores from 35 chicken & wings fast food chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Crown Fried Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dave's Hot Chicken and Chick-fil-A.

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
123
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. Crown Fried Chicken and Dave's Hot Chicken sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Crown Fried Chicken - +10.3%
2 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken - +5.9%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +4.9%
4 F Flip The Bird - +0.1%
5 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - -0.7%
6 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - -6.0%
7 K KFC logo KFC - -14.5%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • KFC
  • Dave's Hot Chicken
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • Wingstop
  • Chicken Connection
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

123 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (15)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (8)
  • KFC (28)
  • Dave's Hot Chicken (6)
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (15)
  • Wingstop (9)
  • Chicken Connection (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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