Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Asheville, NC

Iceflower tracks 738 stores from 541 food & drink chains in Asheville, NC. Sonic Drive-In grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Domino's Pizza 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
541
Tracked stores
738
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. Sonic Drive-In and Domino's Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲2 +10.7%
2 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲2 +10.6%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +7.7%
4 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲1 +7.5%
5 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲1 +5.9%
6 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs - +4.1%
7 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +3.6%
8 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲2 +3.2%
9 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +0.9%
10 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - +0.8%
11 K Kilwins logo Kilwins ▲2 +0.6%
12 A Arby's logo Arby's - +0.3%
13 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 -1.4%
14 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - -1.6%
15 P Pizza Hut logo Pizza Hut - -2.6%

Store footprint

Store map

738 tracked store locations in Asheville, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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