Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Iceflower tracks 39,974 stores from 28,132 food & drink chains in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Chopt Creative Salad Co. grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Rook Coffee and Nothing Bundt Cakes.

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
28,132
Tracked stores
39,974
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. Chopt Creative Salad Co. and Rook Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chopt Creative Salad Co. logo Chopt Creative Salad Co. ▲15 +18.6%
2 R Rook Coffee logo Rook Coffee ▲22 +18.4%
3 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲6 +18.1%
4 M Melt Shop logo Melt Shop ▲14 +17.5%
5 L Lenwich logo Lenwich ▲14 +16.3%
6 T Tommy's Tavern and Tap logo Tommy's Tavern and Tap ▲2 +12.6%
7 F First Watch logo First Watch ▲11 +12.2%
8 K Kennedy Fried Chicken ▲13 +10.5%
9 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲12 +10.0%
10 V Van Leeuwen Ice Cream logo Van Leeuwen Ice Cream ▲13 +9.5%
11 S Serafina ▲8 +8.9%
12 B Brooklyn Diner ▲5 +8.9%
13 M Maman logo Maman ▲10 +8.3%
14 Z Zaro's Family Bakery logo Zaro's Family Bakery ▲8 +7.9%
15 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲2 +7.3%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 39,974 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, colored by category.

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