Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Columbia, SC

Iceflower tracks 1,290 stores from 668 food & drink chains in Columbia, SC. CAVA grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Little Caesars and Buffalo Wild Wings.

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
668
Tracked stores
1,290
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. CAVA and Little Caesars sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲2 +15.1%
2 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲3 +15.1%
3 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲5 +12.6%
4 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲2 +9.8%
5 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲2 +8.8%
6 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +8.7%
7 S Sub Station II logo Sub Station II ▲2 +6.9%
8 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲1 +6.1%
9 E Eggs Up Grill logo Eggs Up Grill ▲2 +4.3%
10 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲3 +3.6%
11 E East Bay Deli ▲1 +3.6%
12 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's ▲1 +3.0%
13 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲6 +1.8%
14 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +1.7%
15 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +1.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,290 tracked store locations in Columbia, SC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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