Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

Iceflower tracks 5,927 stores from 3,798 food & drink chains in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Bonefish Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of TGI Fridays and El Cabrito 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
3,798
Tracked stores
5,927
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. Bonefish Grill and TGI Fridays sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Bonefish Grill logo Bonefish Grill ▲15 +17.5%
2 T TGI Fridays logo TGI Fridays ▲7 +16.1%
3 E El Cabrito Mexican Grill ▲13 +15.8%
4 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲10 +14.3%
5 A Akira Ramen & Izakaya logo Akira Ramen & Izakaya ▲13 +13.7%
6 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers ▲3 +13.4%
7 B Bubbakoo's Burritos logo Bubbakoo's Burritos ▲4 +13.3%
8 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲5 +12.3%
9 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲4 +12.1%
10 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +11.1%
11 R Rise Up Coffee logo Rise Up Coffee ▲7 +10.8%
12 A Always Ice Cream logo Always Ice Cream ▲2 +9.3%
13 R Ruth's Chris Steak House logo Ruth's Chris Steak House ▲2 +9.1%
14 L La Tolteca ▲5 +7.1%
15 E Eggspectation logo Eggspectation ▲4 +6.8%

Store footprint

Store map

5,927 tracked store locations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, colored by category.

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