Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Lake Charles, LA

Iceflower tracks 420 stores from 306 food & drink chains in Lake Charles, LA. Burger King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Subway and Waffle House.

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
306
Tracked stores
420
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. Burger King and Subway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲2 +8.6%
2 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 +5.1%
3 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +4.5%
4 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +0.5%
5 G Golden Chick logo Golden Chick ▲1 +0.4%
6 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▼1 -1.8%
7 G Gatti's Pizza - -2.3%
8 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲1 -2.6%
9 C Checkers logo Checkers - -4.6%
10 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲1 -5.2%
11 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -7.5%
12 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 -8.4%
13 S Smoothie King logo Smoothie King - -10.2%
14 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲1 -11.5%
15 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▼2 -18.9%

Store footprint

Store map

420 tracked store locations in Lake Charles, LA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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