Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Kansas City, MO-KS

Iceflower tracks 4,030 stores from 2,110 food & drink chains in Kansas City, MO-KS. Taqueria La Nueva grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dave's Hot Chicken and Dutch Bros Coffee.

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
2,110
Tracked stores
4,030
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. Taqueria La Nueva and Dave's Hot Chicken sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taqueria La Nueva ▲1 +18.6%
2 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken ▲6 +16.4%
3 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲3 +15.6%
4 M McAlister's Deli logo McAlister's Deli ▲6 +15.6%
5 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲6 +14.5%
6 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲6 +13.0%
7 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲4 +12.8%
8 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲10 +12.4%
9 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲4 +10.0%
10 G Golden Corral Buffet & Grill logo Golden Corral Buffet & Grill ▲2 +9.8%
11 C Culver's logo Culver's - +9.2%
12 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - +8.2%
13 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲2 +7.7%
14 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲5 +7.5%
15 M Meddys logo Meddys ▲5 +7.2%

Store footprint

Store map

4,030 tracked store locations in Kansas City, MO-KS, colored by category.

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