Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Lexington-Fayette, KY

Iceflower tracks 165 stores from 34 fast food restaurants chains in Lexington-Fayette, KY. Burger King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hardee's and McDonald's.

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: 34
Tracked stores: 165
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. Burger King and Hardee's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	B Burger King	-	+12.3%
2	H Hardee's	▲3	+11.7%
3	M McDonald's	-	+6.6%
4	C Checkers and Rally's	-	+6.5%
5	S Steak 'n Shake	▲1	+6.3%
6	D Dairy Queen	-	+5.9%
7	C Culver's	-	+5.9%
8	P Panda Express	▲1	+3.4%
9	A Arby's	▲1	-1.0%
10	T Taco Bell	-	-2.7%
11	C Chick-fil-A	-	-3.0%
12	S Sonic Drive-In	▼1	-3.5%
13	F Fazoli's	▼1	-4.3%
14	R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers	-	-5.1%
15	F Five Guys	-	-5.5%

McDonald's
Chick-fil-A
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Taco Bell
Wendy's
Dairy Queen
Culver's
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

165 tracked store locations in Lexington-Fayette, KY. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

McDonald's (16)
Chick-fil-A (10)
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (5)
Taco Bell (5)
Wendy's (17)
Dairy Queen (14)
Culver's (3)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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