Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in St. Louis, MO-IL

Iceflower tracks 3,417 stores from 1,549 food & drink chains in St. Louis, MO-IL. Little Caesars grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Church's Chicken and Hotshots Sports Bar and Grill.

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
1,549
Tracked stores
3,417
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. Little Caesars and Church's Chicken sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲6 +19.8%
2 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken ▲6 +17.3%
3 H Hotshots Sports Bar and Grill ▲4 +16.2%
4 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲5 +14.7%
5 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲4 +14.7%
6 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲8 +14.5%
7 C Checkers and Rally's logo Checkers and Rally's ▲9 +13.9%
8 S Session Taco ▲7 +12.1%
9 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲3 +10.3%
10 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲2 +10.1%
11 S Scooter's Coffee logo Scooter's Coffee ▲3 +10.1%
12 E El Maguey ▲5 +9.2%
13 5 54th Street Grill & Bar logo 54th Street Grill & Bar ▲2 +8.7%
14 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲6 +8.3%
15 B Bob Evans logo Bob Evans ▲4 +7.8%

Store footprint

Store map

3,417 tracked store locations in St. Louis, MO-IL, colored by category.

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