Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Chelmsford

Iceflower tracks 478 stores from 346 food & drink chains in Chelmsford. Caffè Nero grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Starbucks and Greggs.

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
346
Tracked stores
478
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. Caffè Nero and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲2 +17.5%
2 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲3 +17.1%
3 G Greggs logo Greggs - +13.3%
4 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 +13.1%
5 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲1 +9.7%
6 K KFC logo KFC - +5.4%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +1.4%
8 Z Zizzi ▲1 -2.6%
9 T Toby Carvery - -3.2%
10 B Burger King logo Burger King - -6.7%
11 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▼2 -10.3%
12 P Prezzo logo Prezzo ▼1 -20.1%
13 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger ▼2 -21.8%
14 N Nando's logo Nando's ▼3 -52.9%

Store footprint

Store map

478 tracked store locations in Chelmsford, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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