Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Cedar Rapids, IA

Iceflower tracks 571 stores from 437 food & drink chains in Cedar Rapids, IA. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Papa John's Pizza and Subway.

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
437
Tracked stores
571
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. Panda Express and Papa John's Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲2 +11.1%
2 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲1 +10.4%
3 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 +9.9%
4 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲1 +6.3%
5 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery ▲1 +5.9%
6 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲1 +5.4%
7 S Scooter's Coffee logo Scooter's Coffee ▲2 +2.3%
8 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲1 +0.4%
9 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - -0.3%
10 C Culver's logo Culver's - -0.4%
11 B Burger King logo Burger King - -0.6%
12 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -1.0%
13 P Pizza Ranch logo Pizza Ranch - -4.9%
14 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▼1 -6.4%
15 T Taco John's logo Taco John's ▼1 -8.4%

Store footprint

Store map

571 tracked store locations in Cedar Rapids, IA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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