Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Colchester

Iceflower tracks 306 stores from 269 food & drink chains in Colchester. McDonald's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costa Coffee and KFC.

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
269
Tracked stores
306
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. McDonald's and Costa Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +4.5%
2 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee - -9.2%
3 K KFC logo KFC - -15.1%
4 S Subway logo Subway - -21.4%
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Other restaurants
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
  • Other fast food
  • Bakeries, Donuts & Desserts
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Seafood & Cajun
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

306 tracked store locations in Colchester, colored by category.

  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (102)
  • Other restaurants (31)
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (28)
  • Other fast food (15)
  • Bakeries, Donuts & Desserts (15)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (14)
  • Seafood & Cajun (11)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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