Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Wilmington, NC

Iceflower tracks 1,069 stores from 790 food & drink chains in Wilmington, NC. Indochine Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of P.T.'s Olde Fashioned Grille and Eggs Up 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
790
Tracked stores
1,069
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. Indochine Express and P.T.'s Olde Fashioned Grille sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 I Indochine Express ▲2 +16.1%
2 P P.T.'s Olde Fashioned Grille logo P.T.'s Olde Fashioned Grille ▲2 +10.1%
3 E Eggs Up Grill logo Eggs Up Grill ▲1 +9.7%
4 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲2 +9.4%
5 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +5.5%
6 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +5.5%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +2.8%
8 H Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries logo Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries - +2.7%
9 B Burrito Shak ▲3 +2.1%
10 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs - -0.4%
11 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - -2.0%
12 B Burney's Sweets & More - -3.6%
13 S Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q logo Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q ▲2 -4.5%
14 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza - -5.0%
15 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -5.2%

Store footprint

Store map

1,069 tracked store locations in Wilmington, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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