Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

Iceflower tracks 1,713 stores from 1,227 food & drink chains in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY. I Love NY Pizza grew fastest over the last year, ahead of KFC 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
1,227
Tracked stores
1,713
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. I Love NY Pizza and KFC sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 I I Love NY Pizza ▲3 +19.6%
2 K KFC logo KFC ▲5 +18.6%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲3 +11.5%
4 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers ▲1 +11.0%
5 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - +9.3%
6 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +8.0%
7 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - +7.8%
8 P Pizza Hut logo Pizza Hut ▲2 +7.3%
9 B Bowled logo Bowled ▲1 +5.1%
10 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +4.4%
11 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲1 +3.6%
12 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread - +3.3%
13 1 16 Handles logo 16 Handles ▲1 +3.1%
14 T Tipsy Moose - +2.5%
15 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▼1 +2.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,713 tracked store locations in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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