Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Ann Arbor, MI

Iceflower tracks 875 stores from 654 food & drink chains in Ann Arbor, MI. Qdoba grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cottage Inn Pizza and Tim Hortons.

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
654
Tracked stores
875
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. Qdoba and Cottage Inn Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Qdoba - +15.1%
2 Cottage Inn Pizza ▲1 +13.3%
3 Tim Hortons ▲3 +11.4%
4 Burger King ▲3 +11.0%
5 Panera Bread ▲1 +6.3%
6 McDonald's - +5.9%
7 Bearclaw Coffee Co. - +3.9%
8 Biggby Coffee ▲1 +3.5%
9 Dairy Queen - +2.0%
10 Aubree's Pizzeria & Grill ▲1 +0.4%
11 Dunkin' ▲1 -0.3%
12 Hungry Howie's Pizza ▲1 -3.7%
13 Starbucks - -3.8%
14 Potbelly Sandwich Shop ▼1 -4.3%
15 Little Caesars - -4.7%

Store footprint

Store map

875 tracked store locations in Ann Arbor, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 82 of the 875 stores (9%); 594 of the 654 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked food & drink stores here are cafes & bakery-cafes, against 6% across Michigan.

Top tracked chains by store count

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