Popularity ranking · United States

The 89 most popular Fast Food Restaurants in United States

This curated ranking covers the 89 largest fast food restaurants in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. McDonald's, Taco Bell and Wendy's lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 210M people. Across all 89 entries the average audience size is 8.5M, and the largest, McDonald's, reaches around 76M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each fast food restaurants, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are updated quarterly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 89, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated quarterly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 McDonald's 76M 38.4 54.3% Fast food restaurants
2 Taco Bell 71M 37.3 52.8% Fast food restaurants
3 Wendy's 63M 36.6 52.3% Fast food restaurants
4 Burger King 58M 37.2 52.4% Fast food restaurants
5 Domino's Pizza 56M 35.2 52.4% Fast food restaurants
6 Subway 55M 38.0 53.2% Fast food restaurants
7 In-N-Out Burger 48M 38.4 56.1% Fast food restaurants
8 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen 41M 37.6 49.8% Fast food restaurants
9 Pizza Hut 39M 37.2 52.5% Fast food restaurants
10 KFC 32M 38.2 51.7% Fast food restaurants
11 Olive Garden 32M 42.8 61.6% Fast food restaurants
12 Dunkin' Donuts 28M 38.9 62.8% Fast food restaurants
13 Jack in the Box 26M 38.0 48.6% Fast food restaurants
14 Sonic Drive-In 17M 37.7 54.1% Fast food restaurants
15 The Cheesecake Factory 17M 40.8 62.3% Fast food restaurants
16 Five Guys 16M 37.8 49.5% Fast food restaurants
17 Denny's 13M 42.2 59.7% Fast food restaurants
18 Hooters 7.2M 40.1 37.7% Fast food restaurants
19 MOD Pizza 6.9M 38.9 55.8% Fast food restaurants
20 Ruby Tuesday 5.7M 40.5 55.1% Fast food restaurants
21 Slim Chickens 5.5M 39.3 54.1% Fast food restaurants
22 T.G.I. Friday's 4.1M 41.3 53.7% Fast food restaurants
23 TGI Friday’s 3.7M 41.8 57.6% Fast food restaurants
24 Mixue 3.6M 39.4 59.2% Fast food restaurants
25 cookout 3.2M 31.1 39.3% Fast food restaurants
26 Beef O'Brady's 2.4M 41.5 53.7% Fast food restaurants
27 Yum! Brands 2M 38.9 53.0% Fast food restaurants
28 Eataly 2M 37.4 58.3% Fast food restaurants
29 Hunt Brothers Pizza 1.9M 37.8 51.4% Fast food restaurants
30 Quiznos 1.6M 39.4 53.1% Fast food restaurants
31 Tim Hortons 1.5M 37.7 58.0% Fast food restaurants
32 Perkins Restaurant & Bakery 1.4M 41.4 63.2% Fast food restaurants
33 Trill Burgers 1M 39.1 54.8% Fast food restaurants
34 Harvey's 1M 46.2 59.5% Fast food restaurants
35 Newk's Eatery 1M 40.4 61.0% Fast food restaurants
36 The Melting Pot 982k 41.8 59.8% Fast food restaurants
37 Bush's Chicken 902k 38.8 54.0% Fast food restaurants
38 Chester's Chicken 804k 38.7 53.4% Fast food restaurants
39 DoubleDave's Pizzaworks 677k 39.0 55.4% Fast food restaurants
40 Goldies 647k 39.3 52.0% Fast food restaurants
41 Thundercloud Subs 642k 38.8 54.3% Fast food restaurants
42 Layne's Chicken Fingers 593k 38.9 53.5% Fast food restaurants
43 Clean Juice 548k 40.2 60.6% Fast food restaurants
44 Tudor's Biscuit World 538k 39.8 57.0% Fast food restaurants
45 Western Sizzlin' 520k 42.7 56.7% Fast food restaurants
46 PizzaExpress 488k 32.2 47.6% Fast food restaurants
47 Chronic Tacos 421k 40.4 59.0% Fast food restaurants
48 Red Rooster 414k 42.1 54.1% Fast food restaurants
49 Goody's (restaurant) 396k 37.9 52.8% Fast food restaurants
50 Bruegger's 358k 40.4 62.4% Fast food restaurants
51 Oakberry 309k 40.1 55.2% Fast food restaurants
52 Cheeseburger in Paradise (restaurant) 275k 44.3 66.2% Fast food restaurants
53 Habit Burger Grill 240k 38.8 53.4% Fast food restaurants
54 Sushi Shop 176k 29.5 51.8% Fast food restaurants
55 Secret Recipe (restaurant) 161k 41.7 61.7% Fast food restaurants
56 Hat Creek Burger Company 141k 39.6 54.7% Fast food restaurants
57 Burgermeister 140k 39.5 53.0% Fast food restaurants
58 L'Osteria 123k 42.0 55.1% Fast food restaurants
59 Max's of Manila 113k 42.8 54.7% Fast food restaurants
60 Lotteria 107k 38.8 42.9% Fast food restaurants
61 One Taco 88k 39.6 55.5% Fast food restaurants
62 Selecta (vending company) 29k 47.1 55.5% Fast food restaurants
63 O'Tacos 28k 40.5 57.1% Fast food restaurants
64 Nordsee 27k 38.9 47.2% Fast food restaurants
65 Royal Donut 10k 39.4 64.3% Fast food restaurants
66 Sausalitos 8k 41.0 56.8% Fast food restaurants
67 Flunch 6.6k 37.7 57.7% Fast food restaurants
68 Wienerwald 6.3k 40.2 55.8% Fast food restaurants
69 Call a Pizza 4.6k 39.1 54.8% Fast food restaurants
70 60 seconds to Napoli 4.3k 40.0 57.0% Fast food restaurants
71 Pokawa 4k 38.9 58.2% Fast food restaurants
72 Frittenwerk 4k 40.3 58.6% Fast food restaurants
73 Peter Pane 3.8k 36.9 53.0% Fast food restaurants
74 Loco Chicken 3.4k 37.4 52.4% Fast food restaurants
75 Nhas City Chicken 2.5k 39.3 55.0% Fast food restaurants
76 Best Worscht in Town 2k 40.3 52.2% Fast food restaurants
77 Freddy Fresh 1.8k 38.5 54.9% Fast food restaurants
78 Cafe extrablatt 1.7k 40.3 60.6% Fast food restaurants
79 Shiso Burger 1.5k 38.7 62.9% Fast food restaurants
80 Kochlöffel 1.2k 37.0 57.1% Fast food restaurants
81 Belchicken 983 38.0 54.1% Fast food restaurants
82 Mangal Döner 966 36.8 44.0% Fast food restaurants
83 Bagels & Brownies 948 39.1 64.6% Fast food restaurants
84 Honest Kebab 551 38.6 51.7% Fast food restaurants
85 Beets & Roots 519 39.2 56.0% Fast food restaurants
86 Blondie's Beef 369 39.6 54.7% Fast food restaurants
87 Berliner Das Original 292 40.3 55.3% Fast food restaurants
88 Haval Grill 108 36.2 50.7% Fast food restaurants
89 New York Slice Club 49 40.8 60.1% Fast food restaurants

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular fast food restaurants compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each fast food restaurants by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is updated quarterly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest fast food restaurants in United States?

McDonald's currently leads with an estimated audience of 76M people in United States.

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