Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Birmingham, AL

Iceflower tracks 2,590 stores from 1,504 food & drink chains in Birmingham, AL. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Church's Chicken and Outback Steakhouse.

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
1,504
Tracked stores
2,590
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. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and Church's Chicken sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲7 +19.3%
2 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken ▲8 +17.3%
3 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse ▲4 +16.8%
4 G Guthrie's logo Guthrie's ▲3 +14.7%
5 I IHOP logo IHOP ▲5 +11.6%
6 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲4 +11.1%
7 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲4 +10.7%
8 T Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe logo Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe ▲5 +10.5%
9 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲3 +10.1%
10 M McAlister's Deli logo McAlister's Deli ▲5 +9.1%
11 H Hamburger Heaven ▲7 +8.5%
12 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲4 +8.4%
13 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲2 +6.9%
14 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +6.7%
15 S Subway logo Subway ▲4 +6.7%

Store footprint

Store map

2,590 tracked store locations in Birmingham, AL, colored by category.

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