Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Connecticut

Iceflower tracks 2,165 stores from 1,125 food & drink chains in Connecticut. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jersey Mike's Subs and The Shack.

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
1,125
Tracked stores
2,165
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. Dairy Queen and Jersey Mike's Subs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dairy Queen - +18.4%
2 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲4 +17.9%
3 T The Shack ▲2 +16.0%
4 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲1 +15.3%
5 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings - +10.6%
6 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲2 +8.9%
7 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +7.3%
8 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▼1 +5.8%
9 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +5.6%
10 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +4.6%
11 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - +3.6%
12 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▼2 +2.2%
13 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack - +2.1%
14 F Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana logo Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana ▼1 +1.9%
15 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲1 +1.7%

Store footprint

Store map

2,165 tracked store locations in Connecticut, colored by category.

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