Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY

Iceflower tracks 2,644 stores from 1,938 food & drink chains in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY. Tim Hortons grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tropical Smoothie Cafe and Nick Charlap's Ice Cream.

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
1,938
Tracked stores
2,644
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. Tim Hortons and Tropical Smoothie Cafe sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons - +17.3%
2 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲4 +12.0%
3 N Nick Charlap's Ice Cream - +9.8%
4 P Picasso's Pizza logo Picasso's Pizza ▲4 +7.4%
5 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲2 +7.0%
6 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲1 +6.4%
7 J John's Pizza & Subs ▲4 +6.2%
8 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▲3 +4.8%
9 R Rachels Mediterranean Grill - +4.8%
10 P Paula's Donuts ▲1 +4.1%
11 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +3.9%
12 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 +3.6%
13 S Saigon Bangkok Restaurant ▲2 +2.3%
14 B Blasdell Pizza ▲3 +1.7%
15 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +1.1%

Store footprint

Store map

2,644 tracked store locations in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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