Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in District of Columbia

Iceflower tracks 2,392 stores from 1,928 food & drink chains in District of Columbia. Ted's Bulletin grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen 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
1,928
Tracked stores
2,392
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. Ted's Bulletin and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Ted's Bulletin logo Ted's Bulletin ▲2 +13.4%
2 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - +10.6%
3 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +8.0%
4 S Surfside ▲2 +4.6%
5 Y YELLOW ▲3 +4.0%
6 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲4 +4.0%
7 D Dolcezza - +2.8%
8 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲2 +1.9%
9 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's - +1.2%
10 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲3 +0.4%
11 B Busboys and Poets logo Busboys and Poets - +0.2%
12 S Subway logo Subway - -0.7%
13 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - -1.4%
14 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack - -2.9%
15 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger ▲2 -4.8%

Store footprint

Store map

2,392 tracked store locations in District of Columbia, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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