Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA

Iceflower tracks 365 stores from 272 food & drink chains in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA. Arby's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King 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
272
Tracked stores
365
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. Arby's and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲1 +11.8%
2 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲2 +10.6%
3 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +5.8%
4 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲1 +2.9%
5 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +2.2%
6 T Tha Dawg House ▲1 +1.1%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +1.0%
8 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲1 +0.9%
9 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 -5.6%
10 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - -5.9%
11 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▲1 -7.2%
12 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲1 -8.1%
13 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's ▼3 -8.4%
14 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▼1 -13.2%
15 M Macado's logo Macado's ▼1 -14.3%
  • Other restaurants
  • Casual Dining
  • Burger Chains
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Pizzerias
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

365 tracked store locations in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA, colored by category.

  • Other restaurants (43)
  • Casual Dining (42)
  • Burger Chains (35)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (22)
  • Pizzerias (22)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (19)
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias (18)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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