Popularity ranking · South Africa

The 72 most popular Fast Food Restaurants in South Africa

This curated ranking covers the 72 largest fast food restaurants in South Africa, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. KFC, Burger King and McDonald's lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4.1M people. Across all 72 entries the average audience size is 72k, and the largest, KFC, reaches around 2.7M people in South Africa. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with each fast food restaurants, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Africa and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 72, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

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

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in South Africa. 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 South Africa, 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 South Africa. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Tim Hortons 1.8k 30.8 63.1% Fast food restaurants
27 Ruby Tuesday 1.3k 37.3 62.4% Fast food restaurants
28 cookout 820 34.2 41.0% Fast food restaurants
29 Quiznos 692 31.3 63.9% Fast food restaurants
30 Flunch 664 41.8 60.5% Fast food restaurants
31 Burgermeister 618 36.9 64.1% Fast food restaurants
32 Hunt Brothers Pizza 558 34.5 61.7% Fast food restaurants
33 Nordsee 465 47.4 84.0% Fast food restaurants
34 Slim Chickens 438 35.7 60.6% Fast food restaurants
35 L'Osteria 374 38.4 68.2% Fast food restaurants
36 O'Tacos 333 36.5 57.6% Fast food restaurants
37 Domino's Pizza 212 34.2 64.8% Fast food restaurants
38 Trill Burgers 169 34.8 62.0% Fast food restaurants
39 Call a Pizza 137 35.8 62.8% Fast food restaurants
40 Shiso Burger 123 36.7 64.5% Fast food restaurants
41 Beef O'Brady's 120 37.2 58.6% Fast food restaurants
42 60 seconds to Napoli 119 36.8 62.8% Fast food restaurants
43 Sausalitos 114 37.1 57.1% Fast food restaurants
44 Wendy's 109 32.3 59.1% Fast food restaurants
45 Haval Grill 94 35.0 62.5% Fast food restaurants
46 Pokawa 94 37.9 62.4% Fast food restaurants
47 Loco Chicken 93 34.4 55.5% Fast food restaurants
48 Perkins Restaurant & Bakery 92 37.8 66.3% Fast food restaurants
49 Clean Juice 90 37.3 58.1% Fast food restaurants
50 Western Sizzlin' 89 40.8 63.7% 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 South Africa 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 refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest fast food restaurants in South Africa?

KFC currently leads with an estimated audience of 2.7M people in South Africa.

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