Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in New York

Iceflower tracks 41,530 stores from 29,684 food & drink chains in New York. Carmine's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dave's Hot Chicken and Bare Blends.

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
29,684
Tracked stores
41,530
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. Carmine's and Dave's Hot Chicken sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Carmine's logo Carmine's ▲15 +19.0%
2 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken ▲6 +17.4%
3 B Bare Blends ▲3 +17.1%
4 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons ▲2 +15.9%
5 S Sal's Pizzeria ▲10 +15.8%
6 R Ruth's Chris Steak House logo Ruth's Chris Steak House ▲11 +15.2%
7 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins ▲8 +15.1%
8 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery ▲11 +11.9%
9 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲1 +11.1%
10 Y Yard House logo Yard House ▲12 +10.7%
11 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲13 +10.5%
12 P Paris Baguette logo Paris Baguette ▲10 +9.9%
13 C China King ▲11 +9.3%
14 V Van Leeuwen Ice Cream logo Van Leeuwen Ice Cream ▲4 +8.9%
15 S Subway logo Subway ▲3 +7.6%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 41,530 tracked store locations in New York, colored by category.

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