Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

Iceflower tracks 991 stores from 87 fast food restaurants chains in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI. Captain Jay's Fish & Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of A&W Restaurant and Dave's Hot Chicken.

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
87
Tracked stores
991
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. Captain Jay's Fish & Chicken and A&W Restaurant sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Captain Jay's Fish & Chicken ▲1 +16.4%
2 A A&W Restaurant logo A&W Restaurant ▲1 +12.6%
3 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken ▲1 +1.1%
4 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲1 +0.5%
5 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -0.5%
6 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -2.4%
7 B Burger King logo Burger King - -2.5%
8 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -4.9%
9 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - -5.2%
10 K KFC logo KFC - -5.8%
11 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▼2 -7.8%
12 A Arby's logo Arby's - -8.2%
13 C Checkers logo Checkers ▼1 -10.3%
14 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -10.5%
15 W White Castle logo White Castle - -12.1%
  • McDonald's
  • Taco Bell
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Wendy's
  • Culver's
  • Burger King
  • Arby's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

991 tracked store locations in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (168)
  • Taco Bell (107)
  • Chick-fil-A (18)
  • Wendy's (98)
  • Culver's (28)
  • Burger King (109)
  • Arby's (64)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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