Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Burlington, NC

Iceflower tracks 377 stores from 287 food & drink chains in Burlington, NC. Starbucks grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hardee's and Cook Out.

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
287
Tracked stores
377
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. Starbucks and Hardee's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲2 +8.5%
2 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▲2 +4.2%
3 C Cook Out logo Cook Out - +0.3%
4 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - -1.1%
5 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - -1.3%
6 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -1.8%
7 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - -3.8%
8 B Biscuitville logo Biscuitville - -6.6%
9 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - -6.8%
10 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - -7.8%
11 L La Fiesta ▼1 -9.2%
12 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza - -9.3%
13 A Arby's logo Arby's ▼1 -13.4%
14 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▼2 -18.3%
15 S Subway logo Subway - -23.4%

Store footprint

Store map

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

Top tracked chains by store count

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