Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ

Iceflower tracks 1,928 stores from 1,502 food & drink chains in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ. P.J. Whelihan's Pub + Restaurant grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Auntie Anne's and Chipotle Mexican Grill.

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
1,502
Tracked stores
1,928
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. P.J. Whelihan's Pub + Restaurant and Auntie Anne's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P P.J. Whelihan's Pub + Restaurant logo P.J. Whelihan's Pub + Restaurant - +11.8%
2 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▲1 +10.1%
3 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +9.2%
4 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - +9.1%
5 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▲1 +8.3%
6 Y Yocco's ▲2 +8.3%
7 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲3 +7.8%
8 C China Moon - +7.7%
9 T Tony's Pizza - +5.9%
10 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers - +5.8%
11 B Burger King logo Burger King - +5.7%
12 P Perkins American Food Co. logo Perkins American Food Co. - +5.3%
13 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - +4.6%
14 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +4.4%
15 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲1 +3.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,928 tracked store locations in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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