Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Lexington-Fayette, KY

Iceflower tracks 1,273 stores from 862 food & drink chains in Lexington-Fayette, KY. Dunkin' grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Graeter's Ice Cream and Panda Express.

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
862
Tracked stores
1,273
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. Dunkin' and Graeter's Ice Cream sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲4 +18.9%
2 G Graeter's Ice Cream logo Graeter's Ice Cream ▲2 +17.6%
3 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲2 +15.9%
4 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲5 +15.3%
5 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 +14.3%
6 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲2 +6.6%
7 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲1 +6.1%
8 S Steak 'n Shake logo Steak 'n Shake ▲2 +5.5%
9 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▲1 +5.3%
10 S Subway logo Subway ▲2 +5.3%
11 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +4.9%
12 B Bob Evans logo Bob Evans ▲3 +2.2%
13 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲2 +1.7%
14 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲2 +0.7%
15 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲1 +0.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,273 tracked store locations in Lexington-Fayette, KY, colored by category.

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