Trends · data through September 2026

Burger Chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 748 stores from 70 burger chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Shake Shack grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Five Guys and Burger King.

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
70
Tracked stores
748
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked burger 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. Shake Shack and Five Guys sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲1 +11.7%
2 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +5.4%
3 B Burger King logo Burger King - +4.4%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +2.7%
5 T The Habit Burger Grill logo The Habit Burger Grill - -2.5%
6 F Fuddruckers logo Fuddruckers - -3.9%
7 B BurgerFi logo BurgerFi - -7.2%
8 B Big Buns logo Big Buns - -7.9%
9 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers - -9.7%
10 T The Burger Shack - -11.1%
11 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -11.4%
12 P PLNT Burger logo PLNT Burger ▲1 -12.0%
13 H Hardee's logo Hardee's - -12.1%
14 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - -12.5%
15 R Roy Rogers logo Roy Rogers ▼1 -14.7%
  • McDonald's
  • Wendy's
  • Burger King
  • Five Guys
  • Shake Shack
  • Roy Rogers
  • Checkers
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

748 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (274)
  • Wendy's (96)
  • Burger King (81)
  • Five Guys (80)
  • Shake Shack (21)
  • Roy Rogers (22)
  • Checkers (17)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.

Working in restaurants and QSR? See consumer transaction data for restaurants and QSR →