Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

Iceflower tracks 2,339 stores from 1,800 food & drink chains in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY. Bare Blends grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jersey Mike's Subs and Chick-fil-A.

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
1,800
Tracked stores
2,339
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. Bare Blends and Jersey Mike's Subs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Bare Blends ▲5 +19.0%
2 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +12.0%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲2 +11.4%
4 I I Love NY Pizza ▲2 +9.0%
5 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲1 +7.7%
6 T Ted's Fish Fry logo Ted's Fish Fry ▼1 +7.1%
7 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 +4.5%
8 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - +4.3%
9 P Paesan's Pizza - +3.8%
10 1 16 Handles logo 16 Handles ▲1 +3.4%
11 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's - +2.7%
12 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▼1 +0.2%
13 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +0.1%
14 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - -0.2%
15 T The Whistling Kettle logo The Whistling Kettle - -0.2%

Store footprint

Store map

2,339 tracked store locations in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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