Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 1,231 stores from 735 food & drink chains in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC. Domino's Pizza grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Papa John's Pizza and McAlister'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
735
Tracked stores
1,231
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. Domino's Pizza and Papa John's Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Domino's Pizza ▲9 +19.8%
2 Papa John's Pizza - +8.8%
3 McAlister's Deli - +7.5%
4 Five Guys ▲4 +7.4%
5 Jersey Mike's Subs - +6.7%
6 Tasty Wings & Seafood ▲3 +5.8%
7 Burger King ▲2 +5.7%
8 Pizza Hut ▲3 +5.4%
9 Waffle House - +4.9%
10 Panda Express ▲3 +3.6%
11 Bojangles' - +2.8%
12 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲1 +2.6%
13 Mi Rancho - +1.8%
14 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - +1.8%
15 Chick-fil-A - +1.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,231 tracked store locations in Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 136 of the 1,231 stores (11%); 621 of the 735 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked food & drink stores here are sandwich & sub shops, against 5% across Georgia.

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