Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 91,586 stores from 51,491 food & drink chains in the United Kingdom. Chicken Cottage grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jollibee and Kings Head.

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
51,491
Tracked stores
91,586
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. Chicken Cottage and Jollibee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chicken Cottage logo Chicken Cottage ▲24 +18.5%
2 J Jollibee logo Jollibee ▲21 +17.4%
3 K Kings Head ▲9 +17.2%
4 S Soho ▲26 +14.5%
5 E Esquires Coffee logo Esquires Coffee ▲11 +13.6%
6 P Prince of Wales ▲5 +13.6%
7 T The Swan Inn ▲19 +10.3%
8 T Tasty African Food ▲11 +10.0%
9 T The Ivy ▲11 +9.9%
10 T The White Hart ▲8 +8.3%
11 T The Green Man ▲12 +8.2%
12 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger ▲1 +7.4%
13 T The Star Inn ▲23 +7.2%
14 T The Anchor Inn ▲19 +7.1%
15 S Sainsbury's Cafe logo Sainsbury's Cafe ▲16 +6.9%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 91,586 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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