Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Iceflower tracks 1,572 stores from 198 fast food restaurants chains in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. El Carretero grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Panda Express and Chick-fil-A.

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
198
Tracked stores
1,572
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 Panda Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E El Carretero - +17.2%
2 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +11.4%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲1 +9.0%
4 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack - +8.3%
5 B Bagel 1 ▲3 +7.3%
6 X Xi'an Famous Foods logo Xi'an Famous Foods ▲1 +2.4%
7 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - +1.4%
8 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +0.7%
9 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲1 +0.5%
10 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -1.5%
11 B Burger King logo Burger King - -2.3%
12 W White Castle logo White Castle - -4.5%
13 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - -4.5%
14 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▼1 -6.5%
15 L Little Beet - -9.0%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Wendy's
  • Taco Bell
  • Burger King
  • Shake Shack
  • Five Guys
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,572 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (403)
  • Chick-fil-A (84)
  • Wendy's (189)
  • Taco Bell (122)
  • Burger King (190)
  • Shake Shack (59)
  • Five Guys (59)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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