Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Iowa

Iceflower tracks 656 stores from 49 fast food restaurants chains in Iowa. Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hungry Hobo and Panda Express.

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
49
Tracked stores
656
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. Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers and Hungry Hobo sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲1 +13.3%
2 H Hungry Hobo - +6.5%
3 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +6.2%
4 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲2 +5.3%
5 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba - +4.6%
6 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +3.4%
7 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +2.1%
8 S Steak 'n Shake logo Steak 'n Shake - +1.8%
9 B B-Bop's logo B-Bop's ▲1 +0.4%
10 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +0.3%
11 A Arby's logo Arby's ▼1 -0.0%
12 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - -0.3%
13 C Culver's logo Culver's - -1.0%
14 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - -1.5%
15 B Burger King logo Burger King - -3.2%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Culver's
  • Taco Bell
  • Burger King
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • Dairy Queen
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

656 tracked store locations in Iowa. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (123)
  • Chick-fil-A (22)
  • Culver's (33)
  • Taco Bell (37)
  • Burger King (63)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (10)
  • Dairy Queen (68)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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