Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Iceflower tracks 4,188 stores from 2,461 food & drink chains in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Krispy Kreme grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Emerald City Smoothie and Hops n Drops.

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
2,461
Tracked stores
4,188
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. Krispy Kreme and Emerald City Smoothie sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Krispy Kreme logo Krispy Kreme ▲13 +17.7%
2 E Emerald City Smoothie logo Emerald City Smoothie ▲5 +17.3%
3 H Hops n Drops logo Hops n Drops ▲6 +13.3%
4 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲6 +13.1%
5 M Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream ▲9 +11.4%
6 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲6 +10.5%
7 P Playa Bonita ▲9 +10.1%
8 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +7.2%
9 D Dairy Queen ▲5 +7.1%
10 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲2 +6.5%
11 C Cactus logo Cactus ▲3 +6.5%
12 C Cutters Point Coffee logo Cutters Point Coffee ▲5 +5.5%
13 T The Original Pancake House logo The Original Pancake House ▲4 +5.0%
14 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲2 +4.5%
15 T Trapper's Sushi logo Trapper's Sushi ▲2 +4.0%

Store footprint

Store map

4,188 tracked store locations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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