Trends · data through September 2026

Chicken & Wings Fast Food in Wilmington, NC

Iceflower tracks 36 stores from 8 chicken & wings fast food chains in Wilmington, NC. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q and Zaxby'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
8
Tracked stores
36
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked chicken & wings fast food 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. Chick-fil-A and Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +6.1%
2 S Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q logo Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q - +1.8%
3 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - -4.3%
4 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - -6.2%
5 K KFC logo KFC - -11.2%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Bojangles'
  • Zaxby's
  • Coastal Wing & Spirits
  • KFC
  • Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q
  • Wingstop
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

36 tracked store locations in Wilmington, NC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (8)
  • Bojangles' (15)
  • Zaxby's (3)
  • Coastal Wing & Spirits (1)
  • KFC (4)
  • Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q (3)
  • Wingstop (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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