Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Waterbury-Shelton, CT

Iceflower tracks 861 stores from 707 food & drink chains in Waterbury-Shelton, CT. Jersey Mike's Subs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Subway and Burger King.

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
707
Tracked stores
861
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. Jersey Mike's Subs and Subway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs - +15.8%
2 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 +13.1%
3 B Burger King logo Burger King - +9.5%
4 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread - +7.2%
5 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲2 +6.9%
6 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - +5.6%
7 W Wayback Burgers logo Wayback Burgers - +4.2%
8 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▼1 -0.1%
9 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -0.3%
10 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - -0.4%
11 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - -0.5%
12 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -8.0%
13 K KFC logo KFC ▲1 -13.3%
14 N Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe logo Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe - -13.9%
15 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▼1 -14.2%

Store footprint

Store map

861 tracked store locations in Waterbury-Shelton, CT, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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