Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

M McDonald's logo McDonald's

Iceflower tracks 1,580 McDonald's stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #1 of 3,060 tracked UK fast food restaurants chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -1.1% over the last year.

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 stores
1,580
Regions
12
Category
Fast Food Restaurant
Category rank
#1

Growth

McDonald's against its category

The biggest tracked UK fast food restaurants chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks McDonald's's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 M McDonald's logo McDonald's -1.1%
2 K KFC logo KFC -1.6%
3 B Burger King logo Burger King -4.3%
4 I IKEA Restaurant logo IKEA Restaurant -8.7%
5 F Five Guys logo Five Guys -30.9%
6 P Pepe's -
7 F Foodhub -
8 I itsu -3.9%
9 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell -3.1%
10 G German Doner Kebab +3.5%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 99.9 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

1,580 tracked McDonald's locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 208
  • London 205
  • North West 205
  • East of England 150
  • West Midlands 145
  • East Midlands 125
  • Scotland 125
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 115
  • South West 113
  • Wales 82
  • North East 67
  • Northern Ireland 39
  • Other 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at McDonald's

Tracked chains McDonald's customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

G Greggs logo Greggs 100
A ALDI logo ALDI 87
T Tesco logo Tesco 84
K KFC logo KFC 75
A Asda logo Asda 73
S Starbucks logo Starbucks 64
S Subway logo Subway 49
S Shell logo Shell 46

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