Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Gainesville, GA

Iceflower tracks 412 stores from 304 food & drink chains in Gainesville, GA. Whataburger grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Subway and Dunkin'.

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
304
Tracked stores
412
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. Whataburger and Subway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Whataburger logo Whataburger ▲2 +17.9%
2 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 +9.4%
3 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲2 +8.6%
4 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲3 +7.5%
5 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +5.3%
6 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲3 +4.3%
7 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +2.6%
8 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +1.3%
9 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▼1 -1.4%
10 E El Sombrero ▲1 -1.8%
11 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs - -2.7%
12 D Danny's Donuts - -5.0%
13 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - -6.0%
14 W WNB Factory logo WNB Factory ▼1 -6.6%
15 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲1 -9.2%

Store footprint

Store map

412 tracked store locations in Gainesville, GA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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