Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Asheville, NC

Iceflower tracks 1,144 stores from 894 food & drink chains in Asheville, NC. Chipotle Mexican Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King and Starbucks.

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
894
Tracked stores
1,144
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. Chipotle Mexican Grill and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲3 +12.5%
2 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲3 +11.5%
3 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲2 +9.1%
4 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +0.7%
5 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - +0.1%
6 I IHOP logo IHOP ▲2 -1.6%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -1.7%
8 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - -3.5%
9 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - -4.4%
10 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲2 -5.8%
11 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - -7.4%
12 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲1 -7.5%
13 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲1 -8.6%
14 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲1 -8.8%
15 M Moe's Southwest Grill logo Moe's Southwest Grill ▲2 -9.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,144 tracked store locations in Asheville, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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