Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Akron, OH

Iceflower tracks 1,218 stores from 720 food & drink chains in Akron, OH. Jersey Mike's Subs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Farmer's Rail 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
720
Tracked stores
1,218
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. Jersey Mike's Subs and The Farmer's Rail sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +15.1%
2 T The Farmer's Rail ▲6 +7.3%
3 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲4 +7.1%
4 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's - +6.6%
5 B Bob Evans logo Bob Evans - +4.6%
6 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲1 +3.4%
7 D Dairy Queen ▲2 +3.1%
8 G Gionino's Pizzeria logo Gionino's Pizzeria - +2.2%
9 W Wally Waffle logo Wally Waffle ▲2 +2.1%
10 M Mr. Hero logo Mr. Hero ▲3 +2.0%
11 N Nervous Dog Coffee Bar logo Nervous Dog Coffee Bar ▲1 +1.6%
12 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +1.5%
13 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +1.2%
14 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +1.1%
15 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲2 +1.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,218 tracked store locations in Akron, OH, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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