Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Akron, OH

Iceflower tracks 1,553 stores from 1,013 food & drink chains in Akron, OH. Panera Bread grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A and Handel's Homemade Ice Cream.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,013
Tracked stores
1,553
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & drink chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Panera Bread and Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲2 +19.8%
2 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +18.8%
3 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲6 +14.6%
4 W Wing Warehouse ▲6 +14.1%
5 N Nervous Dog Coffee Bar logo Nervous Dog Coffee Bar ▲1 +10.2%
6 M Malley's Chocolates logo Malley's Chocolates ▲2 +10.0%
7 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲1 +8.1%
8 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +8.1%
9 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲2 +7.4%
10 B Brubaker's Pub logo Brubaker's Pub ▲4 +7.0%
11 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲1 +5.5%
12 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - +5.4%
13 B Burger King logo Burger King - +5.1%
14 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲2 +5.0%
15 B Bob Evans logo Bob Evans ▼1 +2.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,553 tracked store locations in Akron, OH, colored by category.

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