Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Athens-Clarke County, GA

Iceflower tracks 381 stores from 290 food & drink chains in Athens-Clarke County, GA. Papa John's Pizza grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A 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
290
Tracked stores
381
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 Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲1 +7.8%
2 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +5.0%
3 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 +3.7%
4 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +1.1%
5 B Burger King logo Burger King - -0.5%
6 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -1.9%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -5.1%
8 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▼1 -5.3%
9 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -7.3%
10 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - -7.8%
11 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars - -8.4%
12 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - -10.5%
13 J Jittery Joe's logo Jittery Joe's - -10.7%
14 P Planet Smoothie logo Planet Smoothie - -13.0%
15 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs - -13.6%

Store footprint

Store map

381 tracked store locations in Athens-Clarke County, GA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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