Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Massachusetts

Iceflower tracks 620 stores from 49 fast food restaurants chains in Massachusetts. Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A and Taco Bell.

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
620
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. Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers and Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - +16.7%
2 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +11.3%
3 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +7.7%
4 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - +4.3%
5 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +2.5%
6 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack - -0.5%
7 B Burger King logo Burger King - -2.4%
8 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -3.5%
9 K KFC logo KFC - -6.2%
10 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - -7.9%
11 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - -8.0%
12 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -9.8%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Wendy's
  • Burger King
  • Taco Bell
  • Five Guys
  • Shake Shack
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

620 tracked store locations in Massachusetts. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (196)
  • Chick-fil-A (22)
  • Wendy's (94)
  • Burger King (93)
  • Taco Bell (44)
  • Five Guys (42)
  • Shake Shack (13)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 M McDonald's logo McDonald's 196
  • 2 W Wendy's logo Wendy's 94
  • 3 B Burger King logo Burger King 93
  • 4 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell 44
  • 5 F Five Guys logo Five Guys 42
  • 6 K KFC logo KFC 28
  • 7 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A 22
  • 8 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen 18
  • 9 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack 13
  • 10 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers 10
  • 11 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba 6
  • 12 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken 5
  • 13 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In 4
  • 14 P Panda Express logo Panda Express 4
  • 15 M MOOYAH Burgers, Fries & Shakes logo MOOYAH Burgers, Fries & Shakes 2
  • 16 N Naco Taco 2
  • 17 A Arby's logo Arby's 2
  • 18 A Amelia's Taqueria logo Amelia's Taqueria 2
  • 19 T The Knack 2
  • 20 S Stubbys 2
  • 21 P Poké Station 1
  • 22 D Doughboy Donuts & Deli 1
  • 23 M Mike's Roast Beef 1
  • 24 M Mom & Pop Burgers 1
  • 25 L Lee's Burgers 1
  • 26 J John's Footlong 1
  • 27 S Saus 1
  • 28 V Viva Burrito 1
  • 29 S Supreme Coffee & Donuts 1
  • 30 T Terra Nossa 1
  • 31 W Worcester Commons 1
  • 32 G Go Go Curry Cambridge 1
  • 33 S Sweet Sip 1
  • 34 F Frozen Hoagies 1
  • 35 T Thela 1
  • 36 L Lickety Split 1
  • 37 L Liberty Bell Roast Beef & Seafood 1
  • 38 F Fill N Chill 1
  • 39 T The Back Bay Bagel Company 1
  • 40 T Taco Bell / Long John Silver's logo Taco Bell / Long John Silver's 1
  • 41 D Dairy Queen Grill and Chill 1
  • 42 B Birdies Hot Chicken 1
  • 43 W Walter's Deli 1
  • 44 C Cafe 7 1
  • 45 L Lobster Trap Mashpee 1
  • 46 P Pauli's 1
  • 47 I IKEA Restaurant logo IKEA Restaurant 1
  • 48 M Main St Chinese Restaurant 1
  • 49 B Bailey & Sage 1

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