North Carolina, Mapped

Chicken Biscuit Wars

Bojangles outnumbers Chick-fil-A in 71 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. Chick-fil-A leads in two, and 15 counties are dry, with neither.

Published Oct 31, 2026
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Chicken Biscuit Wars

Pick two chains to see which has more in each county, or one to see where its restaurants are. Tap a county for its numbers.

Bojangles outnumbers Chick-fil-A in 71 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. Chick-fil-A leads in two, and 15 counties are dry, with neither.

Published Oct 31, 2026

About this map

Each county is colored by whether it has more Bojangles or more Chick-fil-A restaurants. Bojangles, which opened its first restaurant in Charlotte in 19772, has 352 in North Carolina, 40% of its 8833. Chick-fil-A has 201 here1.

Bojangles has more in 71 counties, Mecklenburg among them, 37 to 31. Chick-fil-A has more in two: Wake, 30 to 28, and Orange. Twelve counties are tied.

Fifteen counties are dry, with no Bojangles or Chick-fil-A: Alleghany, Camden, Chowan, Clay, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Graham, Hyde, Jones, Mitchell, Northampton, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Warren. Eight of them have none of four other chains I counted either, Hardee’s, Waffle House, Cook Out and Biscuitville: Alleghany, Chowan, Clay, Gates, Graham, Hyde, Mitchell and Tyrrell. The legend lets you match up any two of the six chains, and the second view shows which of the six has the most restaurants in each county.

The restaurants are each chain’s own store locator, as gathered by All The Places on Oct 10, 20261. I checked every one against the locators on Oct 19, 2026, and added a Bojangles in Cameron that the scrape had missed. Restaurants listed as temporarily closed are counted; ones listed as coming soon are not. I placed each one in its county by its location on the map.

Sources

  1. All The Places, store locator data for Bojangles, Chick-fil-A, Hardee’s, Waffle House, Cook Out and Biscuitville (run of Oct 10, 2026)
  2. NCpedia, Bojangles’ Famous Chicken ’n Biscuits
  3. Bojangles, restaurant locator and its sitemap of restaurants, Oct 19, 2026
  4. U.S. Census Bureau, cartographic boundary files (counties, 2023)