Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA

Iceflower tracks 320 stores from 260 food & drink chains in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA. Tandem Bagel Company grew fastest over the last year, ahead of La Veracruzana and Dunkin'.

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
260
Tracked stores
320
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. Tandem Bagel Company and La Veracruzana sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Tandem Bagel Company ▲1 +15.6%
2 La Veracruzana ▲3 +14.9%
3 Dunkin' ▲1 +9.8%
4 Starbucks - +5.1%
5 McDonald's ▼1 -0.9%
6 Domino's Pizza ▼2 -8.1%
7 Subway - -8.8%
8 Taco Bell ▼2 -18.6%

Store footprint

Store map

320 tracked store locations in Amherst Town-Northampton, MA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 43 of the 320 stores (13%); 240 of the 260 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked food & drink stores here are pizzerias, against 10% across Massachusetts.

Top tracked chains by store count

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