Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ

Iceflower tracks 1,894 stores from 1,466 food & drink chains in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ. Antonio's Pizza grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Subway and P.J. Whelihan's Pub + Restaurant.

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
1,466
Tracked stores
1,894
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. Antonio's Pizza and Subway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Antonio's Pizza ▲2 +15.8%
2 Subway ▲2 +15.5%
3 P.J. Whelihan's Pub + Restaurant ▲1 +12.1%
4 China Moon - +11.2%
5 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲4 +10.3%
6 Tony's Pizza - +10.1%
7 Yocco's ▲2 +9.8%
8 Auntie Anne's ▲3 +8.7%
9 Dunkin' - +8.6%
10 Wendy's ▲1 +8.3%
11 Chipotle Mexican Grill - +8.3%
12 Frank's Pizza ▲1 +5.9%
13 Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard ▲1 +4.6%
14 Burger King ▲1 +4.5%
15 McDonald's - +4.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,894 tracked store locations in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 144 of the 1,894 stores (8%); 1,348 of the 1,466 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are cafes & bakery-cafes, against 6% across Pennsylvania.

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