Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Columbus, OH

Iceflower tracks 5,052 stores from 2,923 food & drink chains in Columbus, OH. Donericks Pub House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Whit's Frozen Custard and Bojangles'.

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
2,923
Tracked stores
5,052
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. Donericks Pub House and Whit's Frozen Custard sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Donericks Pub House ▲12 +18.8%
2 W Whit's Frozen Custard logo Whit's Frozen Custard ▲3 +18.6%
3 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' ▲12 +18.4%
4 N Northstar Cafe logo Northstar Cafe ▲4 +16.8%
5 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲1 +15.1%
6 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba ▲8 +14.2%
7 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲2 +13.6%
8 R Roosters logo Roosters ▲2 +12.5%
9 J J. Alexander's logo J. Alexander's ▲7 +11.8%
10 S Sbarro logo Sbarro ▲7 +11.4%
11 S Subway logo Subway ▲2 +11.1%
12 P Potbelly Sandwich Shop logo Potbelly Sandwich Shop ▲11 +11.0%
13 E Elliot's Wood Fired Kitchen & Tap ▲9 +10.7%
14 E El Vaquero Mexican Restaurant logo El Vaquero Mexican Restaurant ▲2 +10.4%
15 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲9 +9.7%

Store footprint

Store map

5,052 tracked store locations in Columbus, OH, colored by category.

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