Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Gainesville, FL

Iceflower tracks 814 stores from 600 food & drink chains in Gainesville, FL. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Los Avina Mexican Restaurant and KFC.

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
600
Tracked stores
814
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 Los Avina Mexican Restaurant sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +12.9%
2 L Los Avina Mexican Restaurant ▲2 +10.9%
3 K KFC logo KFC ▲1 +6.6%
4 M Mi Apa Latin Cafe - +6.6%
5 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +5.0%
6 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs - +2.7%
7 B Burger King logo Burger King - +1.0%
8 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +1.0%
9 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲1 -0.3%
10 S Sonny's BBQ logo Sonny's BBQ - -0.8%
11 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - -1.4%
12 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -1.4%
13 F Five Star Pizza logo Five Star Pizza - -1.8%
14 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲2 -3.3%
15 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -3.6%

Store footprint

Store map

814 tracked store locations in Gainesville, FL, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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