Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Chester

Iceflower tracks 494 stores from 387 food & drink chains in Chester. Caffè Nero grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Poundbakery 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
387
Tracked stores
494
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 Poundbakery sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲1 +18.8%
2 P Poundbakery logo Poundbakery - +11.4%
3 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲1 +8.7%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +5.1%
5 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee - +0.7%
6 K KFC logo KFC - -0.3%
7 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 -1.7%
8 S Subway logo Subway ▼1 -13.7%
9 T The Red Lion ▼1 -14.8%
10 C Chatwins logo Chatwins ▼1 -15.7%

Store footprint

Store map

494 tracked store locations in Chester, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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