Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in New Orleans-Metairie, LA

Iceflower tracks 2,755 stores from 2,019 food & drink chains in New Orleans-Metairie, LA. Shake Shack grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Café Du Monde and District Donuts.

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
2,019
Tracked stores
2,755
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. Shake Shack and Café Du Monde sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲2 +15.8%
2 C Café Du Monde ▲5 +12.3%
3 D District Donuts ▲4 +12.1%
4 K KFC logo KFC ▲5 +11.3%
5 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲2 +9.8%
6 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +8.0%
7 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers ▲1 +7.1%
8 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +6.9%
9 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲2 +6.4%
10 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▲2 +4.6%
11 N New Orleans Hamburger & Seafood Co. ▲1 +4.2%
12 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken ▲2 +3.4%
13 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +2.2%
14 B Boulevard American Bistro - +2.1%
15 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲2 +2.0%

Store footprint

Store map

2,755 tracked store locations in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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