Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Iceflower tracks 7,436 stores from 4,767 food & drink chains in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Twistee Treat and Perry's BBQ.

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
4,767
Tracked stores
7,436
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. Panda Express and Twistee Treat sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲10 +16.1%
2 T Twistee Treat logo Twistee Treat ▲6 +16.0%
3 P Perry's BBQ ▲11 +14.8%
4 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins ▲10 +14.1%
5 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba ▲14 +10.7%
6 S Steak 'n Shake logo Steak 'n Shake ▲3 +9.8%
7 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲2 +9.2%
8 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲9 +8.8%
9 T The Hungry Greek logo The Hungry Greek ▲8 +6.8%
10 P Pollo Tropical logo Pollo Tropical ▲9 +5.1%
11 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲1 +5.0%
12 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲2 +4.9%
13 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +4.5%
14 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken ▲9 +4.1%
15 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲4 +3.7%

Store footprint

Store map

7,436 tracked store locations in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL, colored by category.

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