The 25 Busiest Chick-fil-As in America, Ranked by Visits

Even though Chick-fil-A restaurants are closed on Sundays, many are still extremely popular. We crunched a year’s worth of Chick-fil-A foot traffic data for 2,695 restaurants in 48 states and Washington, D.C. to find the 25 busiest.

The busiest Chick-fil-A locations aren’t evenly distributed across the country. The 25 are spread across 13 states. Five are in Georgia (fitting, as Chick-fil-A is based there), and three each are in North Carolina, Virginia and Texas. Texas has the most Chick-fil-A locations of any state (425), but none of Florida’s 225 restaurants made the cut, and just one of California’s 208 did.

For context, the typical Chick-fil-A sees 794,358 visits per year (about 2,554 visits per open day). All of the Chick-fil-A locations on this list get at least 1.6 times as much traffic as that.

How We Measured This

The ranking is based on a year’s worth of anonymized foot traffic data from Nov. 1, 2025, through Oct. 31, 2026. A “visit” means somebody showed up at the restaurant, drive-thru included, not that they bought anything. All the restaurants were measured over the same time period.

First, we made sure each Chick-fil-A’s data held up against the other numbers we had on it, looking at the number of visits, visits by hour and day of the week, length of visits, number of unique visitors and significant spikes in traffic over the course of the year.

Three restaurants that would have placed in the top 25 appear to have foot traffic from neighboring businesses and weren’t included in the ranking: one is in an airport terminal, and two had visits that were much longer and attracted far more unique visitors than you’d expect from a Chick-fil-A.

To put Chick-fil-A in context against its fast-food peers, we also looked at our ranking of 49,353 fast-food restaurants using the same data set. Some Chick-fil-A locations, including some in Manhattan and many in malls, airports and college campuses, aren’t in the data set. This ranking is limited to the 2,695 that are.

No. 25 to No. 21

The bottom five Chick-fil-As on this list are separated by less than 10,000 annual visits. The No. 24 Chick-fil-A on Southwest Freeway in Houston has another Chick-fil-A just 1.7 miles away. The No. 21 Chick-fil-A in Mesquite, Texas missed the cut for No. 20 by just 390 visits.

Terre Haute, Indiana’s Chick-fil-A, which is the busiest of 49 in the state, edges into the bottom five at No. 25. The next-closest Chick-fil-A is 49 miles away, representing the largest gap between restaurants on this list, and this location saw visits increase 15.5 percent from the previous year, more than any other location on the list.

Chick-fil-A vs. McDonald’s vs. Raising Cane’s

In terms of annual visits per restaurant, the typical Chick-fil-A in this set of data got 794,358 visits per year, the typical McDonald’s got 517,499 and the typical Raising Cane’s got 571,037. The typical Chick-fil-A gets 1.5 times as many visits as the typical McDonald’s even though it’s open one less day per week. In fact, of the 2,695 Chick-fil-As in this set of data, 2,341 (87 percent) got more visits than the typical McDonald’s, while only 750 McDonald’s (out of 13,039, or 6 percent) got more visits than the typical Chick-fil-A.

Chick-fil-A and McDonald’s see their biggest rush around noon, while Raising Cane’s biggest rush is at 6 p.m. And 22 percent of visits to Raising Cane’s happen either after 9 p.m. or before 4 a.m., compared to just 5 percent for Chick-fil-A.

No. 20 to No. 16

The busiest Chick-fil-A in Missouri is also the No. 16 restaurant in the country: located in Columbia, it’s the busiest of the state’s 42 Chick-fil-As and the state’s busiest fast-food restaurant, period. The next Chick-fil-A is 27 miles away in Jefferson City.

The next Chick-fil-A on our list is the No. 19 location in Savannah, Georgia. It’s a popular place to make a quick stop: 38 percent of visits last less than five minutes.

The No. 20 restaurant, in Decatur, Georgia, opens the next group, and 43 percent of its patrons also visited Wesley Chapel Square, which is located right next door.

When Chick-fil-A Is Busiest

The busiest time of day at a Chick-fil-A restaurant tends to be around noon, as 10 percent of visits occur during that hour and 27 percent between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., though there’s a smaller surge around 6 p.m. as well. The busiest day of the week is Friday (19 percent of all visits) followed closely by Saturday (18 percent). Most visits are short as well, with 56 percent lasting less than 10 minutes and 71 percent less than 15 minutes.

Of the 25 busiest Chick-fil-A restaurants, 20 see their busiest time around noon. Lancaster, Woburn, Alexandria, Salinas and Reading see the most activity during dinner time.

No. 15 to No. 11

Tifton, Georgia (No. 13), near Interstate 75, is the nation’s busiest rural fast-food restaurant, out of 10,725 the data counts. A full 43 percent of Tifton Chick-fil-A’s customers live more than 30 miles away, the largest share of any restaurant on the list. The most common other stop for its customers is the Buc-ee’s in Fort Valley, Georgia, 79 miles up the road.

Prattville, Alabama (No. 11) attracts road-trippers, too: 24 percent of customers there also stop at the Buc-ee’s in Athens, Alabama, 158 miles to the north.

Christiansburg, Virginia (No. 14), is 21 miles from the next-closest Chick-fil-A.

The Chick-fil-A Year, Week by Week

For the chain as a whole, a typical week brings 40.6 million visits. The highest weekly traffic occurred in the week beginning August 24, 2026 (45.2 million visits). The lowest weekly traffic occurred during the Christmas holiday when restaurants closed for the holiday and lost a day of business (33.4 million visits).

No. 10 to No. 6

The Houston store along Sam Houston Parkway, No. 10, is the busiest fast-food restaurant in Texas, out of 5,132, and 77 percent of its customers live within five miles. The Salinas, Calif., store, No. 9, is the busiest fast-food restaurant in California (of 4,974). The busiest Chick-fil-A in Tennessee can be found in Knoxville, No. 8 on the list.

The steadiest restaurant’s busiest day sees just 16 percent more visits than its slowest day: that would be the store in South Charleston, W.Va., No. 7 on the list. The Kingstowne store in Alexandria, Va., No. 6, is a neighborhood restaurant, as 72 percent of its customers live within five miles.

No. 5 to No. 2

At No. 5 is the North Roxboro Street Chick-fil-A in Durham, North Carolina, which made the top 25 despite having almost no visitors for a week last November.

For Pueblo, Colorado, No. 4, the closest Chick-fil-A is 28 miles away in Fountain, and a quarter of customers make the trip from at least 30 miles away. Tuscaloosa, No. 3, is the busiest Chick-fil-A, and fast-food restaurant, in Alabama.

Woburn, Massachusetts, No. 2, is the busiest fast-food restaurant in Massachusetts and the fourth-busiest in the nation. But it’s also the quickest Chick-fil-A on our list: 43 percent of visits last less than five minutes.

No. 1: Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Chick-fil-A at 1579 Fruitville Pike in Lancaster, Pennsylvania was visited 1,796,597 times in a year, about 5,777 visits for each day it was open for business. That’s 2.3 times as many visits as the typical Chick-fil-A and 123,281 more visits than the No. 2 Chick-fil-A in the country.

Of the 49,353 fast-food restaurants included in the data, only one, a McDonald’s in Manhattan, had more customer visits than the Lancaster Chick-fil-A, making the restaurant the second-busiest in our data set. Among suburban fast-food restaurants, it’s the busiest in the country.

Customer visits to the Lancaster location increased 7.4 percent from one year to the next. The busiest time of day is actually 6 p.m., not lunchtime, and the busiest day of the week is Saturday. Some 70 percent of Lancaster Chick-fil-A customers also shopped at the nearby (1.3 miles) Park City Center during the year. Customers made four trips to the restaurant during the year on average.

How One Chick-fil-A Gets 5,777 Visits a Day

Wondering how these seemingly impossible feats are accomplished? Consider Chick-fil-A’s busiest restaurant in the country.

America’s Busiest Fast-Food Restaurants

Just four McDonald’s in the nation had more visits than our No. 25. Two of those made the top 10: 3543 Broadway in Manhattan and Sand Lake Road in Orlando. Chick-fil-A owned the other eight of the top 10 spots.

All 25 on One Chart

Lancaster and Woburn clearly outpace all the others in this chart of all 25 restaurants, with the rest (Nos. 3 to 25) within about 168,000 visits of each other.

Before You Go

Visiting any of these 25 Chick-fil-A restaurants? Check out the healthiest things to order at Chick-fil-A after 50 to see which menu items made our cut. Chain-wide, the quietest stretch is the morning before 10 a.m., and Monday through Thursday are the slower days. Craving some Crumbl Cookies after your Chick-fil-A meal? Visit the 25 busiest Crumbl Cookies in America.

Cory Jones

Cory Jones has spent 20 years in media and publishing and now leads the data and editorial operation behind The Greenest.