Trends · data through July 2026

Casual Eateries in New York

Iceflower tracks 1,228 stores from 460 casual eateries chains in New York. Empire Bagels grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Town Bagel and Goldberg's Famous Bagels.

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
460
Tracked stores
1,228
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked casual eateries 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. Empire Bagels and Town Bagel sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E Empire Bagels ▲2 +10.1%
2 T Town Bagel - +7.7%
3 G Goldberg's Famous Bagels ▲2 +7.5%
4 V Van Leeuwen Ice Cream logo Van Leeuwen Ice Cream - +5.8%
5 L Long Island Bagel Cafe ▲2 +5.6%
6 B Bagel World - +2.8%
7 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - -1.0%
8 S sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt logo sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt - -1.2%
9 1 16 Handles logo 16 Handles - -2.2%
10 H Häagen-Dazs logo Häagen-Dazs - -3.3%
11 K Krispy Kreme logo Krispy Kreme - -6.5%
12 T The Bagel Emporium ▼1 -8.0%
13 A Anderson's Frozen Custard - -8.4%
14 B Ben & Jerry's logo Ben & Jerry's ▲1 -9.5%
15 C Chip City ▼1 -14.6%
  • Dunkin'
  • Bruegger's Bagels
  • Ed & Jean's Ice Cream Stand
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Paula's Donuts
  • Van Leeuwen Ice Cream
  • 16 Handles
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,228 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dunkin' (548)
  • Bruegger's Bagels (23)
  • Ed & Jean's Ice Cream Stand (1)
  • Baskin-Robbins (61)
  • Paula's Donuts (4)
  • Van Leeuwen Ice Cream (4)
  • 16 Handles (6)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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