Trends · data through August 2026

Chicken Restaurants in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

Iceflower tracks 62 stores from 12 chicken restaurants chains in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Buffalo Wild Wings grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and Wingstop.

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
12
Tracked stores
62
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked chicken 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. Buffalo Wild Wings and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings - +12.2%
2 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - +3.0%
3 W Wingstop logo Wingstop - -8.1%
4 S Starbird Chicken - -19.3%
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • Wingstop
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • Starbird Chicken
  • JJ Fish & Chicken
  • Angry Chickz
  • Foghorn Taproom
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

62 tracked store locations in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (26)
  • Wingstop (16)
  • Buffalo Wild Wings (6)
  • Starbird Chicken (4)
  • JJ Fish & Chicken (2)
  • Angry Chickz (2)
  • Foghorn Taproom (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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