Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Albany, GA

Iceflower tracks 297 stores from 220 food & drink chains in Albany, GA. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Domino'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
220
Tracked stores
297
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. Dairy Queen and Domino's Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dairy Queen ▲2 +12.8%
2 Domino's Pizza ▲2 +11.4%
3 Chick-fil-A - +10.6%
4 Burger King - +6.7%
5 Zaxby's - +5.9%
6 McDonald's - +4.9%
7 Sonic Drive-In ▲3 +4.5%
8 Subway - +4.2%
9 Hardee's - -2.5%
10 Waffle House - -3.0%
11 3 Squares Diner - -3.0%
12 Taco Bell - -3.6%
13 Wendy's - -9.1%
14 Jack's ▼2 -11.1%
15 Pizza Hut ▲1 -12.4%
  • Burger Chains
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Casual Dining
  • Other restaurants
  • Chicken & Wings Fast Food
  • Family Restaurants & Diners
  • Pizza Chains
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

297 tracked store locations in Albany, GA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 42 of the 297 stores (14%); 194 of the 220 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked food & drink stores here are burger chains, against 8% across Georgia.

  • Burger Chains (36)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (24)
  • Casual Dining (23)
  • Other restaurants (23)
  • Chicken & Wings Fast Food (21)
  • Family Restaurants & Diners (18)
  • Pizza Chains (16)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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