Trends · data through August 2026

Chicken Restaurants in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Iceflower tracks 127 stores from 31 chicken restaurants chains in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. Church's Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Buffalo Wild Wings 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
31
Tracked stores
127
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. Church's Chicken and Buffalo Wild Wings sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken - +5.9%
2 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings - +3.1%
3 W Wingstop logo Wingstop - +1.1%
4 P Pollo Tropical logo Pollo Tropical - -3.6%
5 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲1 -5.9%
6 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's ▼1 -6.9%
7 P PDQ logo PDQ - -23.2%
8 H Huey Magoo's logo Huey Magoo's - -28.0%
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • Zaxby's
  • Wingstop
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • Pollo Tropical
  • PDQ
  • Church's Chicken
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

127 tracked store locations in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (24)
  • Zaxby's (15)
  • Wingstop (21)
  • Buffalo Wild Wings (11)
  • Pollo Tropical (8)
  • PDQ (8)
  • Church's Chicken (10)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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