Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Richmond, VA

Iceflower tracks 2,846 stores from 1,840 food & drink chains in Richmond, VA. Shake Shack grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sedona Taphouse 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
1,840
Tracked stores
2,846
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. Shake Shack and Sedona Taphouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲2 +20.0%
2 S Sedona Taphouse logo Sedona Taphouse ▲5 +19.8%
3 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲3 +18.6%
4 P Plaza Azteca logo Plaza Azteca ▲8 +17.4%
5 C Cicis Pizza logo Cicis Pizza ▲1 +12.6%
6 P Peking Restaurant ▲3 +12.3%
7 S sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt logo sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt ▲2 +10.4%
8 B Bruster's Real Ice Cream logo Bruster's Real Ice Cream ▲1 +10.0%
9 B Burger King logo Burger King - +8.5%
10 W Wong's Tacos - +8.5%
11 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▲2 +8.4%
12 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲5 +8.4%
13 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲2 +7.2%
14 T Top's China ▲1 +6.8%
15 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲2 +6.7%

Store footprint

Store map

2,846 tracked store locations in Richmond, VA, colored by category.

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