Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 1,748 stores from 94 fast food restaurants chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of KFC and Golden Chick.

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
94
Tracked stores
1,748
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 KFC sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲1 +5.0%
2 K KFC logo KFC - +3.8%
3 G Golden Chick logo Golden Chick ▲1 +2.5%
4 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +1.6%
5 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▼1 +0.8%
6 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +0.7%
7 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +0.7%
8 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +0.7%
9 H Hartz Chicken Buffet logo Hartz Chicken Buffet - +0.6%
10 I In-N-Out Burger logo In-N-Out Burger ▲1 -0.3%
11 W Whataburger logo Whataburger - -2.0%
12 B Becks Prime ▼1 -2.6%
13 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - -3.3%
14 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - -4.1%
15 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▼1 -7.7%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • McDonald's
  • Whataburger
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • Taco Bell
  • Jack in the Box
  • Burger King
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,748 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (134)
  • McDonald's (236)
  • Whataburger (164)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (49)
  • Taco Bell (65)
  • Jack in the Box (216)
  • Burger King (179)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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