Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Belfast

Iceflower tracks 1,077 stores from 790 food & drink chains in Belfast. Herrons Country Fried Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of KFC and Five Guys.

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
790
Tracked stores
1,077
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. Herrons Country Fried Chicken and KFC sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Herrons Country Fried Chicken ▲2 +12.7%
2 K KFC logo KFC ▲2 +10.3%
3 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲2 +6.8%
4 B Burger King logo Burger King - +4.3%
5 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▼1 +4.0%
6 L Little Wing Pizzeria - +4.0%
7 M Mauds ▼1 +2.1%
8 G Ground Espresso Bars ▲1 +1.8%
9 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +0.8%
10 S Subway logo Subway - +0.3%
11 Y Yangtze ▲1 -1.8%
12 G General Merchants ▲1 -3.1%
13 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▼1 -4.0%
14 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons - -4.2%
15 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee - -5.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,077 tracked store locations in Belfast, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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