Trends · data through September 2026

Chicken & Wings Fast Food in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 309 stores from 36 chicken & wings fast food chains in Kentucky. Bojangles' grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Zaxby's and Indi's Fast Food.

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
36
Tracked stores
309
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked chicken & wings fast food 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. Bojangles' and Zaxby's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - +17.4%
2 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's ▲1 +7.0%
3 I Indi's Fast Food - +6.9%
4 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +3.5%
5 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - +2.5%
6 W Wingstop logo Wingstop - +1.3%
7 L Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken logo Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken - +0.4%
8 C Carali's Rotisserie Chicken - -2.0%
9 W Wing Zone logo Wing Zone - -6.2%
10 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - -6.5%
11 S Slim Chickens logo Slim Chickens - -6.5%
12 K KFC logo KFC ▼1 -13.4%
13 J Joella's Hot Chicken logo Joella's Hot Chicken - -15.4%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • Zaxby's
  • KFC
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • Wingstop
  • Slim Chickens
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

309 tracked store locations in Kentucky. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (53)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (16)
  • Zaxby's (33)
  • KFC (68)
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (28)
  • Wingstop (21)
  • Slim Chickens (10)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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