Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Worcester, MA

Iceflower tracks 1,471 stores from 1,057 food & drink chains in Worcester, MA. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cold Stone Creamery and Wendy'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
1,057
Tracked stores
1,471
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. Chick-fil-A and Cold Stone Creamery sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲1 +16.8%
2 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery ▲3 +14.9%
3 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▲2 +12.3%
4 D Dippin Donuts - +10.6%
5 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲3 +9.8%
6 D D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches logo D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches - +8.2%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +5.2%
8 R Rocco's Doughnut Company ▲2 +4.3%
9 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba ▲1 +4.1%
10 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲1 +4.0%
11 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +2.7%
12 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲2 +2.5%
13 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - -0.0%
14 F Friendly's logo Friendly's ▲2 -0.7%
15 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -2.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,471 tracked store locations in Worcester, MA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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