Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Arizona

Iceflower tracks 15,104 stores from 8,008 food & drink chains in Arizona. Red Lobster grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Lin's Grand Buffet and Someburros.

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
8,008
Tracked stores
15,104
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. Red Lobster and Lin's Grand Buffet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Red Lobster ▲15 +19.9%
2 Lin's Grand Buffet ▲14 +19.4%
3 Someburros ▲6 +19.2%
4 Black Rock Coffee Bar ▲1 +17.5%
5 Cornish Pasty Co ▲18 +17.2%
6 Wienerschnitzel ▲21 +15.7%
7 Shake Shack ▲9 +15.2%
8 Culver's ▲7 +14.2%
9 Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲21 +13.7%
10 Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲10 +13.5%
11 Waffle House ▲10 +12.5%
12 Black Angus Steakhouse ▲6 +12.2%
13 In-N-Out Burger ▲1 +11.6%
14 Burger King - +9.6%
15 Over Easy ▲8 +9.4%

Store footprint

Store map

15,104 tracked store locations in Arizona, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,477 of the 15,104 stores (10%); 7,063 of the 8,008 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Mexican restaurants & taquerias, against 6% across the United States.

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