Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Brighton

Iceflower tracks 787 stores from 679 food & drink chains in Brighton. Costa Coffee grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Caffè Nero and McDonald's.

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
679
Tracked stores
787
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. Costa Coffee and Caffè Nero sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲1 +3.8%
2 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲2 -1.2%
3 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -2.9%
4 T Trading Post Coffee Roasters logo Trading Post Coffee Roasters ▲1 -4.2%
5 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger ▼1 -6.0%
6 G Greggs logo Greggs - -6.7%
7 S Subway logo Subway - -10.6%
8 B Burger King logo Burger King - -14.6%
9 B Belgian Chips ▼1 -17.0%
10 R Real Patisserie - -17.3%
11 G GAIL's logo GAIL's - -27.1%
12 P Pizza Hut logo Pizza Hut ▼2 -64.7%

Store footprint

Store map

787 tracked store locations in Brighton, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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