Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Connecticut

Iceflower tracks 8,313 stores from 6,080 food & drink chains in Connecticut. Little Caesars grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Haven Hot Chicken and Chuck's Steak House.

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
6,080
Tracked stores
8,313
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. Little Caesars and Haven Hot Chicken sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲6 +18.6%
2 H Haven Hot Chicken ▲9 +10.0%
3 C Chuck's Steak House ▲2 +9.4%
4 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲2 +9.3%
5 T The Fresh Monkee - +9.1%
6 C Cinnabon logo Cinnabon ▲2 +8.7%
7 S Square Peg Pizzeria ▲5 +8.7%
8 W Wood-n-Tap logo Wood-n-Tap ▲3 +8.2%
9 D Denny's logo Denny's ▲4 +5.5%
10 G Great Wall ▲5 +4.8%
11 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse ▲3 +4.3%
12 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲2 +4.1%
13 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +3.9%
14 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲2 +3.7%
15 F Family Pizza ▲3 +3.7%

Store footprint

Store map

8,313 tracked store locations in Connecticut, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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