Database

Chicken Brands

Every U.S. chicken concept CSW tracks, with unit counts, systemwide sales, average unit volumes and growth — each figure carrying the publisher it came from and the period it covers.

Brand	U.S. units	Systemwide sales	AUV	Unit growth	Read	CSW Score
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Miami, FL	3,578¹ 2025-12-31	$7.79B¹	—	—	Under pressure	42
KFC U.S. Plano, TX (relocating from Louisville, KY)	3,523² YE2025	$36.4B²	—	-4.0%	Turnaround	48
Krispy Krunchy Chicken Louisiana	3,500³ 2024-2025	—	—	+17.3%	Growing	Unrated
Chick-fil-A Atlanta, GA	2,863⁴ YE2025	$23.92B⁴	$9.16M	+6.7%	Category leader	74
Wingstop Addison, TX	2,586⁵ 2025-12-27	$5.3B⁶	$2.0M	+19.2%	Growth vs. traffic split	43
Zaxby's Athens, GA	1,000⁷ Feb 2026	$2.6B⁸	$2.71M	+3.2%	Steady	45
Raising Cane's Plano, TX	913⁹ YE2025	$5.48B⁹	$6.3M	+10.3%	Compounding	65
Church's Texas Chicken Atlanta, GA	885¹⁰ Entering 2026	$862.0M¹⁰	$1.14M	+1.4%	Stabilizing	40
Bojangles Charlotte, NC	860¹¹ Late 2025	$1.88B¹²	$2.35M	+4.2%	Expanding	46
El Pollo Loco Costa Mesa, CA	511¹³ Q2 2026	$1.13B¹⁴	$2.3M	+1.8%	Steady	59
Dave's Hot Chicken Pasadena, CA	390¹⁵ May 2026	$617.0M¹⁶	$3.0M	+52.3%	Hypergrowth	71
Slim Chickens Fayetteville, AR	300¹⁷ 2026	$570.0M¹²	$2.44M	—	Expanding	54
Chicken Salad Chick Atlanta, GA	300¹⁸ May 2025	$394.2M¹⁹	$1.48M	+13.0%	Growing	46
Golden Chick Richardson, TX	250²⁰ 2026	—	$1.36M	+9.2%	Growing	45
Hooters Atlanta, GA	151²¹ 2025	—	—	—	Distressed	Unrated
Pollo Campero Dallas, TX (U.S.)	140²² 2025	—	$2.98M	+18.6%	Growing	54
Bonchon United States operations	140²³ 2025	—	—	—	Growing	Unrated
Huey Magoo's Orlando, FL	85²⁴ YE2025	$137.0M¹²	—	—	Growing	Unrated
Layne's Chicken Fingers Texas	50²⁵ Q2 2026	—	$2.21M	+110.0%	Hypergrowth	65
Houston TX Hot Chicken Houston, TX	25²⁶ YE2024	—	—	—	Emerging	Unrated
Jollibee (U.S.) Philippines (parent); U.S. operations	—	—	—	—	Mixed signals	Unrated
Chicken Express	—	—	—	—	Tracking	Unrated

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Unit counts are the most recent published figure for each brand and are not all as of the same date — the as-of period is shown under each number. Popeyes is reported by its parent on a combined U.S. and Canada basis. Systemwide sales are U.S. unless the brand only publishes a global figure. Sort any column by clicking its header.

What this database is for

Unit counts are a lagging indicator

A brand's footprint can be flat while every restaurant inside it changes hands. That is why CSW pairs this database with an operator database — the ownership layer brand data never shows.

Coverage gaps are findings

7 brands are unrated

Not because they are unimportant, but because fewer than three of the five scoring components have been published. Those gaps are exactly where proprietary intelligence gets built.

Corrections

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If a figure here is out of date or a franchise structure has changed, send the desk a correction. Updates are published with the source attached.

Sources

Every figure on this page is attributed. CSW does not publish estimates as facts — where a number is unavailable it is shown as “—”, and where a figure is derived arithmetically from two published figures it is marked as derived.