Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Asheville, NC

Iceflower tracks 752 stores from 547 food & drink chains in Asheville, NC. Chipotle Mexican Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sonic Drive-In and Domino's Pizza.

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
547
Tracked stores
752
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. Chipotle Mexican Grill and Sonic Drive-In sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲2 +19.6%
2 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲2 +10.9%
3 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲1 +10.5%
4 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲1 +8.9%
5 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +7.5%
6 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲1 +6.9%
7 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs - +4.1%
8 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +3.5%
9 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲1 +2.8%
10 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +0.8%
11 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' - +0.6%
12 K Kilwins logo Kilwins ▲2 +0.6%
13 A Arby's logo Arby's - +0.3%
14 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲1 -1.3%
15 S Subway logo Subway - -1.5%

Store footprint

Store map

752 tracked store locations in Asheville, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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