Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in New Jersey

Iceflower tracks 20,606 stores from 14,183 food & drink chains in New Jersey. The Capital Grille grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers and Mister Softee.

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
14,183
Tracked stores
20,606
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. The Capital Grille and Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Capital Grille logo The Capital Grille ▲14 +18.3%
2 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲9 +16.0%
3 M Mister Softee logo Mister Softee ▲16 +14.1%
4 R Rai Rai Ramen ▲4 +13.5%
5 M Mission BBQ logo Mission BBQ ▲6 +13.0%
6 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲8 +12.8%
7 F First Watch logo First Watch ▲4 +12.4%
8 J Just Salad logo Just Salad ▲12 +11.7%
9 T Tommy's Tavern and Tap logo Tommy's Tavern and Tap ▲2 +11.2%
10 D Dave & Buster's logo Dave & Buster's ▲3 +10.4%
11 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲6 +10.3%
12 P P.J. Whelihan's Pub + Restaurant logo P.J. Whelihan's Pub + Restaurant ▲2 +10.3%
13 B Burger 25 logo Burger 25 ▲5 +9.8%
14 A Anthony Francos Pizza logo Anthony Francos Pizza ▲4 +9.6%
15 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▲2 +9.3%

Store footprint

Store map

20,606 tracked store locations in New Jersey, colored by category.

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