Trends · data through August 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 1,348 stores from 978 food & drink chains in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ. Papa John's Pizza grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Starbucks and Chipotle Mexican Grill.

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
978
Tracked stores
1,348
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. Papa John's Pizza and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲4 +10.5%
2 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - +10.2%
3 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 +9.3%
4 C China Moon - +8.5%
5 F Five Guys logo Five Guys - +7.2%
6 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's - +7.2%
7 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard - +6.6%
8 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +1.1%
9 Y Yocco's Hot Dogs - +1.0%
10 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +0.8%
11 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -1.7%
12 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - -2.2%
13 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -2.9%
14 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -3.3%
15 T Tony's Pizza ▲3 -3.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,348 tracked store locations in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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