Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Dalton, GA

Iceflower tracks 177 stores from 130 food & drink chains in Dalton, GA. McDonald's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A and Zaxby'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
130
Tracked stores
177
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. McDonald's and Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +4.5%
2 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +2.2%
3 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - +1.2%
4 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +1.1%
5 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' ▲1 -5.4%
6 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -5.6%
7 C Checkers and Rally's logo Checkers and Rally's - -6.3%
8 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲1 -10.0%
9 C Captain D's logo Captain D's ▲1 -10.3%
10 K Krystal logo Krystal ▲1 -10.6%
11 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -12.3%
12 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 -19.6%
13 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▼2 -24.2%
14 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▼4 -93.6%

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Restaurant (77)
  • Fast Food Restaurant (47)
  • Pizzaria (12)
  • Coffee Shop (10)
  • Chicken Restaurant (8)
  • Sandwich Shop (6)
  • Casual Eatery (5)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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