Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC

Iceflower tracks 1,049 stores from 603 food & drink chains in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC. Captain D's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Arby's and Checkers and Rally's.

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
603
Tracked stores
1,049
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. Captain D's and Arby's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Captain D's logo Captain D's - +15.5%
2 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲7 +13.9%
3 C Checkers and Rally's logo Checkers and Rally's - +13.0%
4 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲4 +12.9%
5 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +10.6%
6 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲1 +9.2%
7 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲4 +8.5%
8 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +8.1%
9 M McAlister's Deli logo McAlister's Deli ▲1 +7.8%
10 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲1 +6.6%
11 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲1 +6.1%
12 M Mi Rancho ▲1 +6.0%
13 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲2 +4.0%
14 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +3.2%
15 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken - +2.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,049 tracked store locations in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC, colored by category.

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