Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Lafayette, LA

Iceflower tracks 728 stores from 497 food & drink chains in Lafayette, LA. Church's Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of CC's Coffee House and Tropical Smoothie Cafe.

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
497
Tracked stores
728
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. Church's Chicken and CC's Coffee House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken ▲1 +19.7%
2 C CC's Coffee House logo CC's Coffee House ▲1 +18.2%
3 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲1 +16.9%
4 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 +15.9%
5 I IHOP logo IHOP ▲3 +15.6%
6 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲4 +13.1%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +2.8%
8 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +2.5%
9 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - +1.5%
10 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +0.4%
11 E El Paso Mexican Grill logo El Paso Mexican Grill ▼1 -0.8%
12 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▼1 -0.9%
13 W Whataburger logo Whataburger - -1.0%
14 S Smoothie King logo Smoothie King - -3.1%
15 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - -4.8%

Store footprint

Store map

728 tracked store locations in Lafayette, LA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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