Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in New Jersey

Iceflower tracks 1,180 stores from 132 fast food restaurants chains in New Jersey. El Carretero grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Shake Shack and Bagel 1.

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
132
Tracked stores
1,180
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. El Carretero and Shake Shack sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E El Carretero - +17.3%
2 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲1 +7.9%
3 B Bagel 1 ▲1 +7.4%
4 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +6.1%
5 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +6.1%
6 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - +4.7%
7 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲1 +0.1%
8 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -0.5%
9 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba - -0.8%
10 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -1.2%
11 B Burger King logo Burger King - -1.4%
12 W White Castle logo White Castle ▼1 -4.7%
13 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▼1 -5.6%
14 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -6.5%
15 K KFC logo KFC - -7.4%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Wendy's
  • Taco Bell
  • Burger King
  • Shake Shack
  • Five Guys
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,180 tracked store locations in New Jersey. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (226)
  • Chick-fil-A (66)
  • Wendy's (137)
  • Taco Bell (102)
  • Burger King (197)
  • Shake Shack (27)
  • Five Guys (50)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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