Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 2,962 stores from 1,572 food & drink chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Taco Bell grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Buffalo Wild Wings and Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers.

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
1,572
Tracked stores
2,962
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. Taco Bell and Buffalo Wild Wings sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲2 +20.0%
2 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲5 +18.7%
3 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers ▲3 +17.0%
4 T Tous Les Jours logo Tous Les Jours ▲5 +14.8%
5 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲5 +12.9%
6 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲4 +12.2%
7 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲2 +10.7%
8 L Life Alive Organic Cafe logo Life Alive Organic Cafe ▲1 +6.6%
9 B Ben & Jerry's logo Ben & Jerry's ▲2 +6.3%
10 T Tatte Bakery & Cafe logo Tatte Bakery & Cafe - +5.5%
11 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲3 +5.4%
12 F Flour Bakery+Cafe logo Flour Bakery+Cafe ▲1 +4.9%
13 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▲1 +4.8%
14 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲1 +4.5%
15 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲2 +3.9%

Store footprint

Store map

2,962 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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