Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Massachusetts

Iceflower tracks 13,757 stores from 9,582 food & drink chains in Massachusetts. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of CAVA and Qdoba.

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
9,582
Tracked stores
13,757
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. Chick-fil-A and CAVA sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +16.6%
2 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲6 +16.6%
3 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba ▲10 +16.2%
4 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken ▲5 +15.2%
5 G George Howell Coffee ▲12 +13.8%
6 B Bartaco logo Bartaco ▲8 +11.1%
7 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲4 +10.4%
8 A Anna's Taqueria ▲7 +10.4%
9 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲8 +9.7%
10 T The Harp ▲5 +9.2%
11 A Aroma Joe's Coffee logo Aroma Joe's Coffee ▲4 +8.7%
12 F Fiorella's ▲3 +8.4%
13 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +8.3%
14 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲1 +7.8%
15 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers ▲2 +7.7%

Store footprint

Store map

13,757 tracked store locations in Massachusetts, colored by category.

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