Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Tennessee

Iceflower tracks 2,013 stores from 103 fast food restaurants chains in Tennessee. Whataburger grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Culver's and Jack's.

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: 103
Tracked stores: 2,013
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. Whataburger and Culver's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	W Whataburger	▲2	+19.7%
2	C Culver's	▲1	+18.5%
3	J Jack's	▲3	+9.1%
4	C Checkers and Rally's	-	+6.3%
5	C Chick-fil-A	-	+5.4%
6	J Jack in the Box	-	+4.5%
7	P Pal's Sudden Service	-	+4.3%
8	P Panda Express	-	+3.5%
9	D Dairy Queen	▼1	+3.3%
10	B Burger King	-	+2.9%
11	S Shake Shack	-	+2.5%
12	S Sonic	▲3	+2.2%
13	G Guthrie's	-	+1.5%
14	C Cook Out	-	+0.8%
15	A A&W Restaurant	-	0.0%

Chick-fil-A
McDonald's
Taco Bell
Sonic Drive-In
Burger King
Wendy's
Hardee's
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,013 tracked store locations in Tennessee. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

Chick-fil-A (109)
McDonald's (297)
Taco Bell (159)
Sonic Drive-In (218)
Burger King (190)
Wendy's (180)
Hardee's (116)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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