Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Columbus, GA-AL

Iceflower tracks 533 stores from 357 food & drink chains in Columbus, GA-AL. Sonic Drive-In grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Little Caesars and Dairy Queen.

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
357
Tracked stores
533
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. Sonic Drive-In and Little Caesars sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲2 +19.8%
2 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲1 +17.4%
3 D Dairy Queen ▲2 +17.0%
4 M Marco's Pizza logo Marco's Pizza ▲3 +7.4%
5 J Jack's logo Jack's ▲2 +3.3%
6 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs - +2.5%
7 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 +2.0%
8 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲1 -0.2%
9 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲1 -0.4%
10 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - -0.9%
11 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▼1 -3.8%
12 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▼1 -4.7%
13 B Burger King logo Burger King - -6.3%
14 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▼2 -7.0%
15 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -12.1%

Store footprint

Store map

533 tracked store locations in Columbus, GA-AL, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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