Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Alexandria, LA

Iceflower tracks 234 stores from 177 food & drink chains in Alexandria, LA. Wendy's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's and Dairy Queen.

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
177
Tracked stores
234
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. Wendy's and McDonald's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Wendy's ▲1 +12.0%
2 McDonald's - +9.9%
3 Dairy Queen ▲1 +4.9%
4 Subway ▲1 +4.0%
5 Burger King - +3.5%
6 Whataburger ▼1 +1.6%
7 Sonic Drive-In - +1.5%
8 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - -5.1%
9 Little Caesars ▼2 -25.0%
10 Darrell's Restaurant - -26.9%
11 Shipley Do-Nuts - -29.9%
  • Burger Chains
  • Casual Dining
  • Seafood & Cajun
  • Bakeries, Donuts & Desserts
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Other restaurants
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

234 tracked store locations in Alexandria, LA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 29 of the 234 stores (12%); 147 of the 177 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked food & drink stores here are casual dining, against 7% across Louisiana.

  • Burger Chains (35)
  • Casual Dining (27)
  • Seafood & Cajun (18)
  • Bakeries, Donuts & Desserts (18)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (16)
  • Other restaurants (15)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (13)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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