Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Columbus, GA-AL

Iceflower tracks 695 stores from 497 food & drink chains in Columbus, GA-AL. Chicken Salad Chick grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Panda Express and Chick-fil-A.

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
497
Tracked stores
695
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. Chicken Salad Chick and Panda Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chicken Salad Chick logo Chicken Salad Chick - +18.9%
2 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲3 +17.1%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +11.3%
4 B Burger King logo Burger King - +11.1%
5 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 +11.1%
6 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins - +10.9%
7 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs - +8.9%
8 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza - +8.6%
9 M Marco's Pizza logo Marco's Pizza - +7.4%
10 M Moe's Southwest Grill logo Moe's Southwest Grill - +6.4%
11 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - +5.9%
12 J Jack's logo Jack's - +3.8%
13 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - +3.1%
14 I IHOP logo IHOP - +2.2%
15 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲2 -0.1%

Store footprint

Store map

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

Top tracked chains by store count

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