Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in the United States

Iceflower tracks 719,024 stores from 352,415 food & drink chains in the United States. Scooter's Coffee grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Black Rock Coffee Bar and Swig.

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
352,415
Tracked stores
719,024
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. Scooter's Coffee and Black Rock Coffee Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Scooter's Coffee logo Scooter's Coffee ▲10 +19.6%
2 B Black Rock Coffee Bar logo Black Rock Coffee Bar ▲24 +19.0%
3 S Swig logo Swig ▲20 +18.4%
4 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken ▲6 +17.3%
5 C Caribou Coffee logo Caribou Coffee ▲13 +17.2%
6 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲5 +16.4%
7 S Steam ▲5 +15.7%
8 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲5 +15.6%
9 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins ▲3 +13.7%
10 D Din Tai Fung logo Din Tai Fung ▲16 +13.6%
11 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲3 +13.4%
12 B Braum's logo Braum's ▲18 +13.3%
13 K KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot logo KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot ▲7 +13.2%
14 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲3 +11.2%
15 N North Italia logo North Italia ▲16 +10.5%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 719,024 tracked store locations in the United States, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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