Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Fort Wayne, IN

Iceflower tracks 816 stores from 532 food & drink chains in Fort Wayne, IN. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's and Arby'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
532
Tracked stores
816
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. Panda Express and McDonald's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +18.0%
2 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +15.2%
3 A Arby's logo Arby's - +15.1%
4 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲3 +13.9%
5 C Checkers and Rally's logo Checkers and Rally's ▲1 +12.8%
6 I IHOP logo IHOP ▲1 +10.6%
7 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲3 +10.5%
8 M Marco's Pizza logo Marco's Pizza - +10.5%
9 S Subway logo Subway ▲4 +9.9%
10 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's - +8.2%
11 F Fazoli's logo Fazoli's - +7.4%
12 P Penn Station East Coast Subs logo Penn Station East Coast Subs ▲4 -1.4%
13 K KFC logo KFC - -5.6%
14 P Pizza King logo Pizza King ▲1 -16.6%
15 S Salvatori's ▲1 -16.7%

Store footprint

Store map

816 tracked store locations in Fort Wayne, IN, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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