Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Iceflower tracks 1,298 stores from 991 food & drink chains in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. Burger King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Beer Study and China Wok.

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
991
Tracked stores
1,298
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. Burger King and Beer Study sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +17.5%
2 B Beer Study ▲2 +13.6%
3 C China Wok - +6.0%
4 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +5.8%
5 J Joe Van Gogh logo Joe Van Gogh - +4.2%
6 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - +2.5%
7 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +1.8%
8 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲1 +1.8%
9 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲2 -0.5%
10 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -1.4%
11 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread - -2.9%
12 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs - -3.7%
13 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▼1 -3.8%
14 B Biscuitville logo Biscuitville - -3.8%
15 C Cook Out logo Cook Out - -5.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,298 tracked store locations in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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