Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Burlington, NC

Iceflower tracks 289 stores from 206 food & drink chains in Burlington, NC. Taco Bell grew fastest over the last year, ahead of La Fiesta and Papa John's Pizza.

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
206
Tracked stores
289
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 La Fiesta sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 +13.3%
2 L La Fiesta ▲3 +11.1%
3 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲1 +6.5%
4 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - +4.0%
5 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +3.5%
6 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - +0.4%
7 A Arby's logo Arby's - -0.0%
8 B Biscuitville logo Biscuitville - -3.3%
9 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' ▲1 -4.3%
10 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▼1 -5.5%
11 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▼1 -6.2%
12 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - -7.5%
13 C Cook Out logo Cook Out ▼1 -7.5%
14 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▼2 -10.5%
15 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 -11.3%

Store footprint

Store map

289 tracked store locations in Burlington, NC, colored by category.

  • Restaurant (116)
  • Fast Food Restaurant (43)
  • Pizzaria (23)
  • Coffee Shop (20)
  • Chicken Restaurant (17)
  • Breakfast Restaurant (16)
  • Casual Eatery (15)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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