chick-fil-a.com · Restaurants & Fast Casual · the Q3 2026 release
Chick-fil-A has 3 locations in Rhode Island, its 47th-largest state of the 47 it operates in.
See where Chick-fil-A opens next →Every figure in this block is measured inside Rhode Island. Nothing in it is a rate.
| Figure | Value | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Locations in Rhode Island | 3 | Records the US location index holds for Chick-fil-A inside Rhode Island right now — a snapshot at the Q3 2026 release, not a change over time. |
| Rank among Chick-fil-A's states | 47th of 47 | By location count, among the states where this brand clears the publication floor. |
| States with a published Chick-fil-A page | 47 | States where the brand has at least 3 locations. Smaller states exist in the index and are not published. |
| Locations across those states | 3,772 | The sum of the state table below. Lower than the national count, which includes states under the floor. |
| Rhode Island's share of that footprint | 0.1% | A share of the published states only. Both halves are the same measure, so this is not a growth rate. |
| Verified openings in Rhode Island | 1 | A DIFFERENT measure from the count above: openings detected inside the tracked window, not stores standing today. |
| Cities with verified openings in Rhode Island | 1 | Distinct cities after folding spelling variants. See the city table. |
Cities with verified openings recorded for Chick-fil-A in Rhode Island. The count beside each city is its openings — not its total Chick-fil-A locations.
| City | Verified openings | Share of Rhode Island openings | Spellings folded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warwick | 1 | 100.0% | 1 |
The brand's whole published footprint, largest first. Rhode Island is highlighted in place.
| Rank | State | Locations | Share of footprint |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | 570 | 15.1% |
| 2 | Georgia | 316 | 8.4% |
| 3 | Florida | 312 | 8.3% |
| 4 | California | 244 | 6.5% |
| 5 | North Carolina | 229 | 6.1% |
| 6 | Virginia | 167 | 4.4% |
| 7 | Tennessee | 124 | 3.3% |
| 8 | Pennsylvania | 122 | 3.2% |
| 9 | Alabama | 120 | 3.2% |
| 10 | South Carolina | 115 | 3.0% |
| 11 | Ohio | 109 | 2.9% |
| 12 | Maryland | 100 | 2.7% |
| 13 | Illinois | 84 | 2.2% |
| 14 | New York | 78 | 2.1% |
| 15 | Indiana | 76 | 2.0% |
| 16 | New Jersey | 73 | 1.9% |
| 17 | Oklahoma | 72 | 1.9% |
| 18 | Colorado | 69 | 1.8% |
| 19 | Louisiana | 68 | 1.8% |
| 20 | Arizona | 66 | 1.7% |
| 21 | Kentucky | 58 | 1.5% |
| 22 | Missouri | 56 | 1.5% |
| 23 | Mississippi | 52 | 1.4% |
| 24 | Michigan | 45 | 1.2% |
| 25 | Arkansas | 44 | 1.2% |
| 26 | Utah | 41 | 1.1% |
| 27 | Minnesota | 33 | 0.9% |
| 28 | Kansas | 30 | 0.8% |
| 29 | Massachusetts | 29 | 0.8% |
| 30 | Washington | 29 | 0.8% |
| 31 | Wisconsin | 26 | 0.7% |
| 32 | West Virginia | 25 | 0.7% |
| 33 | Iowa | 24 | 0.6% |
| 34 | Connecticut | 20 | 0.5% |
| 35 | Nevada | 19 | 0.5% |
| 36 | Delaware | 18 | 0.5% |
| 37 | Oregon | 17 | 0.5% |
| 38 | Nebraska | 16 | 0.4% |
| 39 | New Mexico | 16 | 0.4% |
| 40 | District of Columbia | 15 | 0.4% |
| 41 | Idaho | 15 | 0.4% |
| 42 | Montana | 7 | 0.2% |
| 43 | Hawaii | 6 | 0.2% |
| 44 | North Dakota | 5 | 0.1% |
| 45 | South Dakota | 5 | 0.1% |
| 46 | New Hampshire | 4 | 0.1% |
| 47 | Rhode Island — this page | 3 | 0.1% |
Context for the local figures above. None of it is a Rhode Island number.
| Figure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| US locations | 3,784 | At the latest vintage, Q3 2026. |
| US locations at the window start | 3,345 | The first tracked vintage, Q4 2024. |
| Net new over the window | +439 | The difference between the two counts above. A count movement, not a count of openings. |
| Growth over the window | +13.1% | Percentage change in the count between the first and latest vintages, nationwide. |
| Growth as a multiple | 1.1x | The same movement stated as a multiple of the starting count. |
| Growth against its category | +15.2% | The brand's percentage change minus its category's, so a rising tide is subtracted out. |
| Mean quarterly change | +29 | Average count movement per vintage step. The default ranking key on the hub. |
| Verified openings in the window | 389 | Individually dated location records new to the index inside the window, nationwide. |
| Openings pace, latest step | +77 | Verified openings per 91 days over the most recent vintage step. |
| Openings pace, prior step | the prior step is majority batch-suspect, so its pace and the direction are withheld while the latest one stands | The same measure one step earlier. |
| Direction | the two steps are not comparable, so no direction is stated | Accelerating, steady or slowing, decided on the two paces at the precision they are printed. |
| Latest pace as a share of the base | a single quarter's share has nothing to be read against, so it prints only alongside the prior quarter's | The latest pace over the store count at that step's start vintage. |
| Prior pace as a share of the base | withheld with the prior step, above | The same measure one step earlier. |
| Reported openings pace, latest | +77 | The server's own pre-aggregated pace. Shown because the page ranks on the series-derived figure above and the two must agree. |
| Reported openings pace, prior | +97 | The same, one step earlier. |
| Largest single step's share of the change | 28% | One release carrying most of the movement is the signature of a data-coverage artifact rather than of openings. |
| Steps that moved the same direction | 100% | A real buildout moves one way most quarters. This and the row above are the credibility filter. |
| Passes the credibility filter | yes | Largest step at or under half the movement, most steps in one direction, and net new above zero. |
| Cleared to print a percentage | yes | Whether the index's coverage of this brand is mature enough for a rate to mean anything. |
| Openings corroborated by coverage | 89% | Share of the openings that agree with the count series over the same step. |
| Records matching the brand's own website | 100% | Share of index records whose website resolves to this domain. |
| Records sharing an address with another operator | 26% | High values mean host locations, sibling banners or shared kitchens rather than the chain's own leases. |
| Entity class | chain | Anything other than a chain is not published as a brand page in this state tier. |
| Category | Dining and Drinking > Restaurant > Fast Food Restaurant | The index's own category path for this brand. |
| Segment | Restaurants & Fast Casual | The published grouping the category rolls up to. |
| Match name in the index | chick fil a | The string the location index matches records against. Rarely the display name. |
| Display name | Chick-fil-A | As published. Some domains carry a read-time repair where the index's most frequent name is a department's. |
| Domain | chick-fil-a.com | The key every table on this tier is joined on. |
| Tracked window | 8 vintages, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026 | How many quarterly releases this brand has been measured across. |
| Vintage stamps | 2024-11-19|2024-12-03|2025-03-06|2025-06-10|2025-09-09|2025-12-16|2026-03-18|2026-07-09 | Every release these figures were built from, oldest first, pipe-separated. It is a LIST of dates rather than one date, which is why nothing on this page prints it as a timestamp. |
The national count series behind the figures above. Both readings of it — the raw count and the indexed one — are columns here.
| Quarter | Vintage date | US locations | Indexed | Change vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2024 | 2024-11-19 | 3,345 | 100 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 2024-12-03 | 3,345 | 100 | 0 |
| Q1 2025 | 2025-03-06 | 3,466 | 104 | +121 |
| Q2 2025 | 2025-06-10 | 3,520 | 105 | +54 |
| Q3 2025 | 2025-09-09 | 3,546 | 106 | +26 |
| Q4 2025 | 2025-12-16 | 3,593 | 107 | +47 |
| Q1 2026 | 2026-03-18 | 3,688 | 110 | +95 |
| Q3 2026 | 2026-07-09 | 3,784 | 113 | +96 |
Each row is the difference between two consecutive releases, so there is one fewer step than there are quarters above.
| Step ends | Quarter | Openings | Step length | Pace | Batch-suspect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 2024 | Q4 2024 | 5 | 14 | +33 | 0% |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Q1 2025 | 46 | 93 | +45 | 0% |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Q2 2025 | 50 | 96 | +47 | 4% |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Q3 2025 | 30 | 91 | +30 | 0% |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Q4 2025 | 64 | 98 | +59 | 17% |
| Mar 18, 2026 | Q1 2026 | 98 | 92 | +97 | 64% |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Q3 2026 | 96 | 113 | +77 | 10% |
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