Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Lafayette, LA

Iceflower tracks 179 stores from 96 food & drink chains in Lafayette, LA. Sonic Drive-In grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A and Taco Bell.

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
96
Tracked stores
179
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. Sonic Drive-In and Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲1 +19.9%
2 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +12.6%
3 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 +4.3%
4 W Wingstop logo Wingstop ▲1 +3.2%
5 W Whataburger logo Whataburger - -0.1%
6 B Burger King logo Burger King ▼1 -1.6%
7 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - -2.2%
8 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - -2.7%
9 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▼1 -12.1%
10 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▼1 -24.0%
11 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -37.6%

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Fast Food Restaurant (73)
  • Restaurant (43)
  • Chicken Restaurant (21)
  • Bar (8)
  • Coffee Shop (7)
  • Breakfast Restaurant (5)
  • Casual Eatery (4)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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