Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Winston-Salem, NC

Iceflower tracks 1,328 stores from 915 food & drink chains in Winston-Salem, NC. Subway grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Elizabeth's Pizza and Chick-fil-A.

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
915
Tracked stores
1,328
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. Subway and Elizabeth's Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Subway logo Subway ▲3 +12.8%
2 E Elizabeth's Pizza ▲7 +11.4%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +9.1%
4 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +8.9%
5 S sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt logo sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt ▲1 +8.7%
6 C Cook Out logo Cook Out - +8.5%
7 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲3 +8.3%
8 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲1 +8.0%
9 M Marco's Pizza logo Marco's Pizza ▲1 +7.7%
10 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - +5.4%
11 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲4 +4.7%
12 D Dairi-O logo Dairi-O - +4.1%
13 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲3 +1.3%
14 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲1 +0.1%
15 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's ▲1 -0.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,328 tracked store locations in Winston-Salem, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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