Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Athens-Clarke County, GA

Iceflower tracks 507 stores from 398 food & drink chains in Athens-Clarke County, GA. Burger King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Subway and Dairy Queen.

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
398
Tracked stores
507
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. Burger King and Subway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲2 +17.5%
2 S Subway logo Subway - +13.1%
3 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲2 +6.1%
4 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +5.7%
5 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +5.1%
6 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲1 -0.6%
7 J Jittery Joe's logo Jittery Joe's - -2.6%
8 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - -3.3%
9 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - -3.5%
10 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - -3.7%
11 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - -6.4%
12 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -7.1%
13 A American Deli logo American Deli - -10.4%
14 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - -12.1%
15 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -13.8%

Store footprint

Store map

507 tracked store locations in Athens-Clarke County, GA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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