Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Iceflower tracks 13,194 stores from 9,110 food & drink chains in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD. Asad's Hot Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Juice Pod and LongHorn Steakhouse.

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
9,110
Tracked stores
13,194
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. Asad's Hot Chicken and The Juice Pod sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Asad's Hot Chicken logo Asad's Hot Chicken ▲15 +18.1%
2 T The Juice Pod logo The Juice Pod ▲4 +16.4%
3 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲2 +15.6%
4 C China Wok ▲12 +14.2%
5 P P.J. Whelihan's Pub + Restaurant logo P.J. Whelihan's Pub + Restaurant ▲1 +13.6%
6 T The Capital Grille logo The Capital Grille ▲10 +12.8%
7 F First Watch logo First Watch ▲2 +9.9%
8 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - +9.7%
9 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲8 +9.5%
10 A Angelo's Pizza ▲6 +9.5%
11 B Bonefish Grill logo Bonefish Grill ▲6 +9.3%
12 T The Cheesecake Factory logo The Cheesecake Factory ▲2 +8.5%
13 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲1 +8.3%
14 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▼1 +7.8%
15 R Rey Azteca ▲8 +7.6%

Store footprint

Store map

13,194 tracked store locations in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD, colored by category.

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