Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Charleston-North Charleston, SC

Iceflower tracks 163 stores from 29 fast food restaurants chains in Charleston-North Charleston, SC. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Taco Bell and Hardee'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
29
Tracked stores
163
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 Taco Bell sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +11.5%
2 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +8.2%
3 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - +3.7%
4 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲1 +3.3%
5 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - +2.0%
6 K KFC logo KFC ▲1 -1.1%
7 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 -2.5%
8 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -3.3%
9 C Cook Out logo Cook Out - -5.2%
10 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -5.3%
11 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - -5.8%
12 C Culver's logo Culver's - -8.5%
13 M Mozzo Deli logo Mozzo Deli - -13.1%
14 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲1 -18.1%
15 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▼4 -60.6%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • McDonald's
  • Wendy's
  • Taco Bell
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • Sonic Drive-In
  • Cook Out
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

163 tracked store locations in Charleston-North Charleston, SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (20)
  • McDonald's (21)
  • Wendy's (19)
  • Taco Bell (9)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (3)
  • Sonic Drive-In (12)
  • Cook Out (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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