Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Auburn-Opelika, AL

Iceflower tracks 444 stores from 344 food & drink chains in Auburn-Opelika, AL. Chicken Salad Chick grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Papa John's Pizza and Momma Goldberg's Deli.

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
344
Tracked stores
444
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. Chicken Salad Chick and Papa John's Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Chicken Salad Chick - +11.5%
2 Papa John's Pizza - +10.1%
3 Momma Goldberg's Deli ▲2 +9.0%
4 Burger King - +7.6%
5 Zaxby's - +5.8%
6 Waffle House ▲2 +4.3%
7 Chick-fil-A - +3.6%
8 Jack's ▲2 +0.7%
9 Guthrie's ▲2 -1.0%
10 Dunkin' - -2.7%
11 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▼1 -4.6%
12 Chipotle Mexican Grill - -5.4%
13 Starbucks - -7.0%
14 McDonald's - -7.6%
15 Marco's Pizza ▼1 -7.8%

Store footprint

Store map

444 tracked store locations in Auburn-Opelika, AL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 39 of the 444 stores (9%); 302 of the 344 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked food & drink stores here are chicken & wings fast food, against 6% across Alabama.

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