Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Pennsylvania

Iceflower tracks 17,411 stores from 10,649 food & drink chains in Pennsylvania. CAVA grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Playa Bowls and Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers.

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
10,649
Tracked stores
17,411
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. CAVA and Playa Bowls sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲13 +18.5%
2 P Playa Bowls logo Playa Bowls ▲14 +17.5%
3 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲10 +17.4%
4 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲3 +16.2%
5 M Manhattan Bagel logo Manhattan Bagel ▲18 +15.5%
6 T The Capital Grille logo The Capital Grille ▲10 +14.0%
7 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲3 +13.5%
8 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲4 +12.8%
9 P Plaza Azteca logo Plaza Azteca ▲3 +12.7%
10 S Sedona Taphouse logo Sedona Taphouse ▲13 +12.0%
11 F Firebirds Wood Fired Grill logo Firebirds Wood Fired Grill ▲3 +11.0%
12 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲6 +9.7%
13 T The Meadows Original Frozen Custard logo The Meadows Original Frozen Custard ▲13 +8.6%
14 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲3 +8.4%
15 P Philly Pretzel Factory logo Philly Pretzel Factory ▲5 +8.0%

Store footprint

Store map

17,411 tracked store locations in Pennsylvania, colored by category.

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