Trends · data through September 2026

Burger Chains in Kansas City, MO-KS

Iceflower tracks 436 stores from 42 burger chains in Kansas City, MO-KS. Shake Shack grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Culver's and Burger King.

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: 42
Tracked stores: 436
Consumer panel: 130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked burger 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. Shake Shack and Culver's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	S Shake Shack	-	+13.8%
2	C Culver's	-	+8.5%
3	B Burger King	-	+5.7%
4	M McDonald's	-	+2.5%
5	F Five Guys	-	-0.4%
6	F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers	-	-3.7%
7	W Whataburger	-	-4.8%
8	S Sonic Drive-In	-	-6.4%
9	W Wendy's	-	-16.9%
10	H Hardee's	-	-44.7%
11	J Jack in the Box	-	-96.3%

McDonald's
Culver's
Sonic Drive-In
Wendy's
Whataburger
Burger King
Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

436 tracked store locations in Kansas City, MO-KS. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

McDonald's (117)
Culver's (16)
Sonic Drive-In (85)
Wendy's (52)
Whataburger (19)
Burger King (60)
Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers (19)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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