Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 416 stores from 39 fast food restaurants chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Moe's Italian Sandwiches grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dave's Hot Chicken and Taco Bell.

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: 39
Tracked stores: 416
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. Moe's Italian Sandwiches and Dave's Hot Chicken sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	M Moe's Italian Sandwiches	-	+19.4%
2	D Dave's Hot Chicken	-	+18.7%
3	T Taco Bell	▲1	+14.6%
4	R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers	-	+12.2%
5	S Shake Shack	-	-0.8%
6	D Dairy Queen	-	-3.1%
7	M McDonald's	-	-3.7%
8	B Burger King	-	-6.0%
9	K KFC	-	-6.9%
10	P Panda Express	-	-8.3%
11	F Five Guys	▼1	-9.9%
12	W Wendy's	-	-11.5%

McDonald's
Chick-fil-A
Wendy's
Burger King
Shake Shack
Taco Bell
Five Guys
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

McDonald's (123)
Chick-fil-A (15)
Wendy's (58)
Burger King (62)
Shake Shack (14)
Taco Bell (26)
Five Guys (32)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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