Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Winston-Salem, NC

Iceflower tracks 928 stores from 584 food & drink chains in Winston-Salem, NC. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cook Out and Zaxby's.

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
584
Tracked stores
928
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. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Cook Out sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲3 +10.6%
2 C Cook Out logo Cook Out ▲1 +9.0%
3 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's ▲2 +7.9%
4 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - +7.8%
5 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +5.3%
6 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲1 +3.4%
7 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +3.0%
8 B Breakfastime ▲2 +1.0%
9 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +0.7%
10 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +0.4%
11 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲1 0.0%
12 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - -0.2%
13 K KFC logo KFC ▲1 -1.0%
14 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -1.9%
15 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - -2.3%

Store footprint

Store map

928 tracked store locations in Winston-Salem, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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