Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Dalton, GA

Iceflower tracks 278 stores from 225 food & drink chains in Dalton, GA. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Bojangles' and McDonald's.

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
225
Tracked stores
278
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. Waffle House and Bojangles' sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +11.0%
2 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - +6.1%
3 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +3.7%
4 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +2.8%
5 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +2.5%
6 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▼1 -3.6%
7 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 -7.5%
8 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲1 -14.4%
9 K Krystal logo Krystal - -15.1%
10 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -24.4%
11 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▼2 -48.5%

Store footprint

Store map

278 tracked store locations in Dalton, GA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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