Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Louisiana

Iceflower tracks 8,817 stores from 5,093 food & drink chains in Louisiana. Panera Bread grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Olive Garden and Smalls Sliders.

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
5,093
Tracked stores
8,817
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. Panera Bread and Olive Garden sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲10 +19.3%
2 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden ▲5 +17.6%
3 S Smalls Sliders logo Smalls Sliders ▲4 +16.7%
4 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲11 +16.3%
5 S Sam's Southern Eatery ▲7 +16.2%
6 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲6 +15.1%
7 O Off The Hook ▲4 +13.5%
8 L Lit Pizza ▲8 +12.8%
9 R Ruth's Chris Steak House logo Ruth's Chris Steak House ▲3 +12.8%
10 B BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse logo BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse ▲7 +11.9%
11 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +10.1%
12 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +9.3%
13 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲3 +9.2%
14 H Hooters logo Hooters ▲3 +8.4%
15 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲1 +8.0%

Store footprint

Store map

8,817 tracked store locations in Louisiana, colored by category.

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